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Discussing the book "Very Old Bones" (published by Viking Press) with the author William Kennedy.
Joan Chase discusses and reads from her book "During the Reign of the Queen of Persia: a Novel." This book is told from the perspective of four granddaughters of an Ohio farm wife during the 1950s and is broken into three parts that follow these women throughout their life recounting family stories and the struggles of rural life in modern America. Studs plays "Down in the Valley" - Pete Seeger, Bess Lomax, and Tom Glazer (1951), "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" - Kai Winding & J.J. Johnson (1959), and "Frankie and Johnny" - Burl Ives (1955).
Barbara Kingsolver reads from and discusses her book, "Animal Dreams: A Novel." The main character, Codi, has returned to Grace, Arizona, to help her father, Doc Homer, with his bout of Alzheimer's. Kingsolver explained that the novel not only has flashbacks but that it's really about people's memories.