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.

Six Kentucky nuns set up a hospital in India in 1947. Jyoti Thottam wrote the history in Sisters of Mokama and we talk to her on GCL Book Club.

Alison Espach discusses her outstanding new coming-of-age novel Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance.

This time on the GCL Book Club, we hear from Sarah Weinman about her gripping new book Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free.

Grant Ginder's comic novel Let's Not Do That Again explores family life within a turbulent political framework.

This week we hear from former This American Life producer Stephanie Foo, who talks about her compelling memoir What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma.

This astute and riveting collection of linked short stories explores who has power and who does not in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Kate Bowler joins us to talk about her two memoirs—No Cure For Being Human and Everything Happens For a Reason and Other Lies I Have Loved—on the Gulf Coast Life Book Club.