Book Talk

"Flyover country, the middle of nowhere, the space between the coasts. The American Midwest is a place beyond definition, whose very boundaries are a question. It’s a place of rolling prairies and towering pines, where guns in bars and trucks on blocks are as much a part of the landscape as rivers and lakes and farms. Where girls are girls and boys are boys, where women are mothers and wives, where one is taught to work hard and live between the lines. But what happens when those lines become increasingly unclear? When a girl, like the land that raised her, finds herself neither here nor there? Publisher: Little A/TOPPLE Books Book art and author headshot provided by the author’s representative. 00:00 - Show Opening 01:07 - Two Birds - Self Help 01:16 - Episode Intro 03:09 - Two Birds (Cont’d) - Self Help 04:19 - Interview with Melissa Faliveno, Part 1 19:38 - Golden Ages - Self Help 22:24 - Interview with Melissa Faliveno, Part 2 36:41 - Sunburned States - Self Help 36:48 - Episode Outro 38:15 - Sunbur