You're listening to all the backlist, the weekly show about books that are not new.

I'm your host Kelly Jensen and this is the March 15th, 2024 edition.

I think I've mentioned before that one of the things I do when I consider the books I want to

talk about in all the backlist is look through previous episodes of all the books

where I co-hosted and see if there any books that still stand out or still like

really resonate with me and it

turns out that last March was a real knockout for those kind of books so I'm going to

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Today's episode is brought to you by National Geographic Books.

The Cave is the Incredible Memoir of Amani Belur, a young doctor and activist who ran an underground

hospital in Damascus, humanizing the enduring crisis in Syria.

The only woman to have ever run a wartime hospital in Syria, she saved many from the atrocities

of war while having to face the patriarchal conservatism around her.

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