All The Backlist: June 24, 2022

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

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This week Kelly recommends three coming-of-age graphic memoirs about growing up an American immigrant. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Men, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito by Shing Yin Khor Almost American Girl by Robin Ha I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese-American by Laura Gao Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to All the Backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.
0:15.3	I'm your host Kelly Johnson and this is the June 24th, 2022 edition.
0:20.5	Today we're going to tell you about three unique, coming-of-age graphic memoirs about being
0:25.4	an immigrant.
0:26.4	Today's episode is brought to you by Flat Iron Books, publisher of Good Bad Girl by Alice
0:32.9	Feney.
0:33.9	Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home.
0:38.3	But get this, the two crimes are somehow linked and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering
0:44.2	the truth.
0:45.2	With a novel that will trick your brain and touch your heart, Alice Feney returns with
0:49.0	Good Bad Girl, another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises.
0:54.2	Now Edith may have been tricked into a nursing home, but at 80 years young she's planning
0:58.0	her escape and patience works there, cleaning messes and bonding with Edith, a kindred spirit.
1:03.4	The patience is lying to Edith about almost everything and Edith's own daughter Cleo
1:09.2	won't speak to her and someone new is about to knock on Cleo's door and their intentions
1:14.4	aren't good.
1:16.2	Get your copy of Good Bad Girl by New York Times bestselling author Alice Feney and see
1:21.0	how the truth unfolds.
1:23.5	Thanks again to Flat Iron Books, publisher of Good Bad Girl by Alice Feney for sponsoring
1:28.1	this episode.
1:31.1	Today's episode is brought to you by Amazon Publishing.
1:36.7	So Phoebe and Sue used to be closer than sisters, growing up they shared everything
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