EPISODE TWENTY-FOUR: We Are Family

This week's show begins with a petite chat about Magic Mike XXL that's anything but literary, haha! We also have an interview with the ever so talented Angela Flournoy in which we discuss her novel The Turner House, among other things. Finally, we wrap up discussing a few novels whose central focus is the black family unit. Books discussed in the Angela Flournoy segment: The Turner House - Angela Flournoy: http://amzn.to/1VoQ4g3 Into the Go Slow - Bridget M. Davis: http://amzn.to/1JufT5v The Star Side of Bird - Naomi Jackson: http://amzn.to/1IgdHSr Under the Udara Trees - Chinelo Okparanta: http://amzn.to/1Juh1pM We Love You, Charlie Freeman - Kaitlyn Greenidge: http://amzn.to/1GyADXD Happiness Like Water - Chinelo Okparanta: http://amzn.to/1VoRW8D Books discussed in the main show segment: This Is Where I Leave You - Jonathan Tropper: http://amzn.to/1VoRW8D Seating Arrangements - Maggie Shipstead: http://amzn.to/1OjN9jt Mama - Terry McMillan: http://amzn.to/1IgfyH0 A Day Late & a Dollar Short - Terry McMillan: http://amzn.to/1GyCFah Getting to Happy - Terry McMillan: http://amzn.to/1GyCFXL Waiting to Exhale - Terry McMillan: http://amzn.to/1IgfE1o Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward: http://amzn.to/1OjNoLn The Darkest Child - Delores Phillips: http://amzn.to/1MhXjme Perfect Peace - Daniel Black: http://amzn.to/1KiCR2n Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred D.Taylor: http://amzn.to/1TNP2Zp If Sons, Then Heirs - Lorene Cary: http://amzn.to/1GyD5x6 Men We Reaped - Jesmyn Ward: http://amzn.to/1IgfHKr We Ain't the Brontes - Rosalyn McMillan: http://amzn.to/1OjNAu0 Peace from Broken Pieces - Iyanla Vanzant: http://amzn.to/1MhXDBf BTTM on Social: www.twitter.com/BetterThanTM www.facebook.com/BetterThantheMovie bttmpodcast.tumblr.com Google Voice: 210-618-2886

This week's show begins with a petite chat about Magic Mike XXL that's anything but literary, haha! We also have an interview with the ever so talented Angela Flournoy in which we discuss her novel The Turner House, among other things. Finally, we wrap up discussing a few novels whose central focus is the black family unit.

Books discussed in the Angela Flournoy segment:

The Turner House - Angela Flournoy: http://amzn.to/1VoQ4g3

Into the Go Slow - Bridget M. Davis: http://amzn.to/1JufT5v 

The Star Side of Bird - Naomi Jackson: http://amzn.to/1IgdHSr

Under the Udara Trees - Chinelo Okparanta: http://amzn.to/1Juh1pM

We Love You, Charlie Freeman - Kaitlyn Greenidge: http://amzn.to/1GyADXD 

Happiness Like Water - Chinelo Okparanta: http://amzn.to/1VoRW8D

Books discussed in the main show segment:

This Is Where I Leave You - Jonathan Tropper: http://amzn.to/1VoRW8D

Seating Arrangements - Maggie Shipstead: http://amzn.to/1OjN9jt

Mama - Terry McMillan: http://amzn.to/1IgfyH0

A Day Late & a Dollar Short - Terry McMillan: http://amzn.to/1GyCFah

Getting to Happy - Terry McMillan: http://amzn.to/1GyCFXL

Waiting to Exhale - Terry McMillan: http://amzn.to/1IgfE1o

Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward: http://amzn.to/1OjNoLn

The Darkest Child - Delores Phillips: http://amzn.to/1MhXjme

Perfect Peace - Daniel Black: http://amzn.to/1KiCR2n

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred D.Taylor: http://amzn.to/1TNP2Zp

If Sons, Then Heirs - Lorene Cary: http://amzn.to/1GyD5x6

Men We Reaped - Jesmyn Ward: http://amzn.to/1IgfHKr

We Ain't the Brontes - Rosalyn McMillan: http://amzn.to/1OjNAu0

Peace from Broken Pieces - Iyanla Vanzant: http://amzn.to/1MhXDBf

BTTM on Social:

www.twitter.com/BetterThanTM

www.facebook.com/BetterThantheMovie

bttmpodcast.tumblr.com

Google Voice: 210-618-2886