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I'm your host, Tears of Price, and this is episode 268.5.

This week I'm going to be diving into the stacks to talk about two great books about missing sisters.

But first, let's hear from our sponsor.

Today's episode is brought to you by Harper Via Books.

Samira comes from a moderately traditional Muslim family and has endured her fair share of arranged marriages.

First date she calls Doorknock Appeals, where she and her possible suitors eat snacks in her living

room in the company of both sets of parents.

However, Samira is already experiencing enough wedding drama as an assistant at Bridal

Bazaar magazine and as a gopher for her soon to be married cousin and nemesis Zara.

But when she meets the charismatic Menem at a work retreat, Samira finds herself intrigued, but her best friend in Sizmin isn't right for her.

Add in a childhood friend behaving oddly about marriage all of a sudden, and Samira seeking a promotion at work,

and suddenly her life is filled with drama and complications.

Samira may need to quickly realize that a part of growing up is making difficult choices

about what and

thanks again to Harper Via Books for sponsoring this episode.

Today. Today's episode is brought to you by Gallery Books. I'm super excited to talk about this next

one. It is by an author who has been doing the darn thing for Black American fiction, horror fiction for a while, Miss Tamaner Eve, too.

So it's titled The Reformatory and it follows 12-year-old Robbie Stevens Jr. who was sentenced to six months at the Greystown School for Boys, which is you guessed it a Reformatory.

He sent there for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister Gloria.

So begins Robbie's journey further into the tears of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call the reformatory.

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