Chris and Annie are joined by longtime friend of the show CJ Hauser to talk about her new novel, Family of Origin, available now from Doubleday. They discuss millennials, dysfunctional families, healing from trauma, wacky scientists, baseball, and Anglo-Saxon poetry.

By now you've probably seen her viral essay, "The Crane Wife," published at The Paris Review.

You can snag your copy of Family of Origin in The Bookshelf's online store.

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Last month, Chris and Annie were challenged to think of a book that doesn't exist (yet) that they would love to see written. This episode is a very silly grappling with answers to that question.

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In this special bonus episode of From the Front Porch, Annie sits down with Allen Cheney, co-author of the new book Crescendo, a story of Thomasville. 

Allen and his co-author, Julie Cantrell, will be at The Bookshelf on Tuesday, July 16, at 7 PM for an in-store Shelf Talk and signing. Learn more here.

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Annie and Chris are traveling through time to bring you a list and discussion of the books they read in June. 

You can find all of the following books for sale (or preorder) in The Bookshelf's online store.

Annie read:
+ Burnout by Emily an Amelia Nagoski 
+ Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
+ The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
+ Heartburn by Nora Ephron
+ Recursion by Blake Crouch
+ Furious Hours by Casey Cep
+ Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
+ The Body Lies by Jo Baker
+ My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan
+ 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

Chris read:
+ A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
+ Family of Origin by CJ Hauser

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As the heat settles and the mosquitos start biting and we all converge in the back of a pickup truck in an antique store parking lot to watch the fireworks, we hope you'll take the time to join us for a conversation on books about what our nation is, has been, and could be. Happy Independence Day.

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You can find all of the following books for sale (or preorder) in The Bookshelf's online store.

+ Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
+ Signing Their Lives Away and Signing Their Rights Away by Denise Kiernan and Joseph D'Agnese
+ I Think You're Wrong, But I'm Listening by Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth A. Shivers
+ A Sin By Any Other Name by Robert W. Lee
+ We Were 8 Years in Powerby Ta-Nehisi Coates
+ The Soul of America by Jon Meacham
+ Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
+ Rise and Fall by Mitchell Zuckoff
+ Impeachment: An American History by Jeffrey A. Engel, Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, and Peter Baker
+ Parkland by Dave Cullen
+ Dissent and the Supreme Court by Melvin Urofsky
+ Songs of America by Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw

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