You're listening to All the Backlist, a weekly show about bookssetter.new. I'm your

host, Liberty Hardy, and I'm a little in the middle, but I've got my backlist.

Today is April 14, 2023, and for this week's episode, I'm going to talk about a couple

backlist titles related to the week's new releases and book news. Hello! It's Friday. I

hope you've all had a lovely week. I hope you're all reading amazing things that are just

knocking your brain socks off. I know that I am. I'm going to tell you a little bit about

the month end of the show. Before I do that, I want to remind you that Book Riot has a

new newsletter. It is The Deep Dive. We're tapping the experts to share longer gems based

on years of knowledge about books and publishing experiences as readers and book curators

and research on lesser-known histories to illuminate and inspire book lovers. You can

get this for just $5 a month. You'll get the Deep Dive edition of The Newsletter to

your inbox twice a month, or if you're on the fence, need more time to decide. You can

sign up for a free subscription, which is the splash pad, at bookwrite.substac.com.

That's very exciting, and now we are going to hear from a sponsor.

Alright, so my first pick for today is related to one of this week's new releases. This

Tuesday, Life and Other Love Songs by Anissa Gray came out, and I'm very excited to

read this because I really loved the care and feeding of ravenously hungry girls, her

previous novel, which came out, I think, in 2019. It's all a blur now, but it's a family

drama about three sisters who are very close, and then one day, they're adults now. One

day, one of the sisters Althea and her husband are arrested and jailed, like they may have

done something. And while they're awaiting trial, Althea's other sisters, Viola and Lillian,

or should not say other sisters or two sisters, Viola and Lillian must step in and care

...