Lynn Steger Strong's new novel Flight explores adult children gathering at Christmas after the death of their mother.

Author Lynne Tillman describes caring for her mother through normal pressure hydrocephalus, which causes fluid on the brain.

Joan is an ICU doctor in a busy New York City hospital. She’s extremely devoted to her work and interested in little else, which causes people around her to try to steer her toward other things in life. We talk to Weike Wang about her new novel, Joan is Okay.

We hear from poet and essayist Diana Goetsch about her new memoir This Body I Wore, in which she describes coming out as a trans woman at age 50.

Writer Elizabeth Crane had a loving marriage of 15 years—or so she thought, until one day her husband said: “I’m not happy.” Her new memoir, called This Story Will Change, takes us through that time in her life.

We hear from Marcy Dermansky, author of Hurricane Girl, a fascinating, funny, horrifying, relatable and very gripping read.

Beverly Gooden’s book dispels misunderstandings about intimate partner violence and is an indispensable source of education and hope on the subject.

This time on the Gulf Coast Life Book Club, we hear from Lydia Conklin, author of the short story collection Rainbow Rainbow, which Time magazine named one of the most anticipated books of the year.

On GCL Book Club, we hear from Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Andrea Elliott. For eight years, she wrote about a young girl named Dasani, who was growing up poor in New York City. What resulted is the sweeping epic of one family’s story, by turns heartbreaking and inspirational. The book is a riveting must-read.

Dr. Yungman Kwak is a Korean ob-gyn who immigrated to the US after the Korean War and took up his practice in the rural Minnesota town of Horse’s Breath. Now, toward the end of his career, the foundation he’s built is shifting. Marie Myung-Ok Lee’s new novel The Evening Hero is Kwak’s story.