All the Backlist! June 1, 2018

This week, Liberty discusses The Mothers, The Sisters Brothers, and more great older books.

This week’s episode was sponsored by American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse.

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Books discussed on the show:

She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer

My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South by Issac J. Bailey

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller

All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones

Mother Bruce by Ryan Higgins

The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter

The Brothers K by David James Duncan

The Mothers by Brit Bennett

Catstronauts: Mission Moon by Drew Brockington

Target Practice (Cleopatra in Space 1) by Mike Maihack

Binky the Space Cat by Ashley Spires