Episode #44: The Women of Brewster Place, by Gloria Naylor

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE by Gloria Naylor and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss OPEN SECRETS: STORIES by Alice Munro, weighing the value of her work against what we have recently learned of her personal life. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in May.

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Books mentioned:

• The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
• Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor
• The Men of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill
• Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy by Clare Carlisle
• There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
• The Wax Child by Olga Ravn, translated from the Dutch by Martin Aitken
• The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje, translated from the Dutch by David McKay
• The Duke by Matteo Melchiorre, translated from the Italian by Antonella Lettieri
• The Witch by Marie Ndiaye, translated from the French by Jordan Stump
• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
• Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
• The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley
• An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
• Nonesuch by Francis Spufford
• Sakina's Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag, translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur
• Open Secrets: Stories by Alice Munro
• A Marsh Island by Sarah Orne Jewett, with an afterword from the One Bright Book crew.

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