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BOOK #4: HEARTWOOD, BY AMITY GAIGE. Out now wherever you get books, and on ⁠⁠⁠our Bookshop.org page⁠⁠⁠.

Tava, Brett, and Alex spend a few minutes with TNBC's newest book, Heartwood by Amity Gaige. Then, the group works their way through some of their favorite first lines in literature, featuring Moby Dick, a Tale of Two Cities, The Glass Castle, The Secret History, One Hundred Years of Solite, and more than one work by Joan Didion. In this book-heavy episode, they managed to sneak in a few tangents about Amy Winehouse and their search histories.

Heartwood Schedule:

6/2/25: pp. 1-78

6/10/25: pp. 79-158

6/17/25: pp. 159-238

6/24/25: pp. 239-302

This week's What Else are You Reading? Books:

⁠⁠⁠Mood Machine, by Liz Pelly

The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides

I Leave Tt Up to You, by Jinwoo Chong

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Intro Music: evandean.wav by madmerv -- https://freesound.org/s/690635/ -- License: Attribution 4.0