On this episode of the GCL Book Club, we hear from prolific author Caroline Leavitt about her page-turner of a book, Days of Wonder, about justice, guilt, forgiveness, and reinvention.

This week on the Book Club, an international reporter takes on his most difficult story yet when he looks for his father's identity in a new memoir called A Question of Paternity.

Author Julia Phillips was nominated for a National Book Award for her very first novel, Disappearing Earth. Now Phillips has a second novel, a page-turner called Bear, in which two sisters in their twenties find themselves visited by a bear, with differing responses.

Devil is Fine is a novel in which the main character—a biracial writer—discovers that he has inherited a plantation from the white side of his family. Author John Vercher joins us to talk about it.

Carrie Sun spent several years at an extremely successful hedge fund, then wrote a memoir about it. Hear her discuss Private Equity.

Novelist Clare Beams, author of THE GARDEN, joins us. In 1948, women who have suffered multiple miscarriages gather at a private hospital to be treated by the husband-and-wife team of doctors there. Then things start to go wrong.

Kayla Min Andrews finished and published her mother's novel The Fetishist after she died.

This live edition of the Gulf Coast Life Book Club features Fort Myers writer Annabelle Tometich and her new memoir, The Mango Tree.

Kaveh Akbar is a well-known poet, publishing regularly in The New Yorker and elsewhere. Now he has written a novel, and it is excellent.

Patrick Bringley was a museum guard at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for more than 10 years. In his beautiful memoir, he shares what he learned.