For this, our first foray into the romance novel genre, we went in craving a bodice ripper, but ended up with teenage dress mending -- only a little less hot. However, we must admit that the results of our reading of the great Beverly Jenkins' YA novel, Josephine, were more than satisfying! In this episode we discuss antebellum Michigan and the small town of Whittaker, where all the men have left to fight in the Civil War and the women have been left to fend for themselves. When a group of injured soldiers arrives to convalesce at the town's boarding house, I think we all know what comes next: intense courting! Respectable socializing! Thoughts of kissing! Heteronormativity! And choices, choices . . . As you might expect, this turns out to be a delightfully raucous episode with lots of puns, nervous laughter, and an overdose of food metaphors. Check it out!
The Drip Episode 10 -- Food and Wine and We Feel Fine: Our Dinner With Yaa Gyasi's HOMEGOING
The Drip Episode 9 -- And We Have Another Thing to Say: THE HATE U GIVE, the movie
The Drip Episode 8 -- Roy, Celestial, and Don't Forget About Dre: Tayari Jones' AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE
The Drip Episode 7 -- The Spoilers Sidestep the Sexy Stuff in HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES
The Drip Episode Six -- The Spoilers are Rumbling: Angie Thomas' THE HATE U GIVE
The Drip Episode Five -- Corsets, Shamblers, and Metaphors: Justina Ireland's DREAD NATION
Driplet #1: We Just Can't
The Drip Episode Four: Audre Lorde's ZAMI: A NEW SPELLING OF MY NAME
The Drip Episode Three: Eve Ewing's ELECTRIC ARCHES
The Drip Episode Two: Jesmyn Ward's SING, UNBURIED, SING
The Drip: Episode One: Octavia Butler's KINDRED
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