Maurice Carlos Ruffin on THE AMERICAN DAUGHTERS
\u201cIf my mother and my grandma were in this book, how would they be? And what kind of love can I show them as a writer\u2026\u201d\xa0
The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos Ruffin brings readers to pre-Civil War New Orleans to meet a cast of strong, fierce women in a hope filled novel of freedom and liberation. Ruffin joins us to talk about the intricacies of writing about his hometown, cultural impacts on identity, building empathy through fiction and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.\xa0\xa0\xa0
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Featured Books (Episode):\xa0
The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos Ruffin\xa0
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin\xa0
The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.\xa0
Ours by Phillip B. Williams\xa0
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson\xa0
Lone Women by Victor LaValle\xa0
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov\xa0
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison\xa0
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides\xa0\xa0
12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup\xa0
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi\xa0