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b"Welcome to another episode of From the Front Porch! Annie is back to answer your literary dilemmas like a bookish Frasier Crane in volume 11 of Literary Therapy.\\nBefore we get started, this is your friendly reminder that From the Front Porch is a production of The Bookshelf, an indie bookstore in Thomasville, Georgia. We\\u2019re in the throes of our second holiday shopping season held during a pandemic, and remarkably, our spirits are high. As you support indies like ours this holiday season, please remember to shop early, to be open to our suggestions when your first book preference might already be back-ordered, and to trust our deadlines. This year, December 1 is the deadline to purchase something from us and have it arrive by Christmas.\\nThe books mentioned in this week\\u2019s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf\\n\\nMy Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite\\n\\n\\nFinlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano\\n\\n\\n Normal People by Sally Rooney\\n\\n\\nBeautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney\\n\\n\\nOlive Again by Elizabeth Strout\\n\\n\\nHomegoing by Yaa Gyasi\\n\\n\\nFinding Freedom by Erin French\\n\\n\\nEducated by Tara Westover\\n\\n\\nSo Many Beginnings by Bethany C. Morrow\\n\\n\\n Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty\\n\\n\\n The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel\\n\\n\\nEcology of a Cracker Child by Janisse Ray\\n\\n\\nSalvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward\\n\\n\\nSing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward\\n\\n\\nGods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson (currently unavailable)\\n\\n\\nAlmost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson (currently unavailable)\\n\\n\\nThe Fortunate Ones by Ed Tarkington\\n\\n\\nWhere I Come From by Rick Bragg\\n\\n\\nRazorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby\\n\\n\\nA Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O\\u2019Connor\\n\\n\\nTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston\\n\\n\\nBlack, White, and the Grey by Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano\\n\\n\\nMemorial Drive by Natasha Tretheway\\n\\n\\n Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi\\n\\n\\n I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott\\n\\n\\nEarly Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny\\n\\n\\nStandard Deviation by Katherine Heiny (currently unavailable)\\n\\n\\nMisfortune of Marion Palm by Emily Culliton (currently unavailable)\\n\\n\\nFrances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer\\n\\n\\nLimelight by Amy Poppel\\n\\n\\nMusical Chairs by Amy Poeppel\\n\\n\\nKitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal\\n\\n\\nLager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal\\n\\n\\nCrazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan\\n\\n\\nStrangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen (currently unavailable)\\n\\n\\nThis Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith\\n\\nFrom the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf\\u2019s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today\\u2019s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com.\\xa0\\nA full transcript of today\\u2019s episode can be found here.\\nSpecial thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations.\\xa0\\nThank you again to this week\\u2019s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.\\nThis week, Annie is reading Taste\\xa0by Stanley Tucci.\\nIf you liked what you heard in today\\u2019s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you\\u2019re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff\\u2019s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.\\nWe\\u2019re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.\\nLibro.FM:\\nLibro.fm\\xa0lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (Like The Bookshelf). You can pick from more than 215,000 audiobooks, and you'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you\\u2019ll be part of a different story -- one that su"