Allegra Goodman, Her Stories, and the Messiness of Family

Allegra Goodman’s latest, This is Not About Us is a treasure.  Centered around the Rubenstein family, each chapter examines the Rubensteins from a different lens, a different perspective.  The stories are funny, messy, heartbreaking, captivating; all adjectives that describe complex families.  You will laugh, you will be moved, and you will be left with some brilliant tableaus of an American family as they struggle through life.  We also have a terrific bookstore owner, Sarah Lacey (The Best Bookstore in Palm Springs and The Best Bookstore in Union Square, and yes, those are the names of the stores, brilliant right?). Come join us!

 

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Books mentioned on this week's episode:

 

This is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman

Isola by Allegra Goodman

Sam by Allegra Goodman

Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman

The Cookbook Collection by Allegra Goodman

The Family Markowitz by Allegra Goodman

The Chalk Artist by Allegra Goodman

The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman

Intuition by Allegra Goodman

Total Immersion: Stories by Allegra Goodman

Paradise Park by Allegra Goodman

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Resistors by Gish Jen

Moby Dick by Herman Mellville

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

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