FYI, there is a swear in this episode, it's in context, and it happens after the break.

Okay, here's the show.

This is Outside In, I am Sam Evans-Brown, and I am Justine Paradise. And together,

we are welcoming you all to our very first Outside In Book Club.

Our first pick and the subject of today's conversation is Trace, Memory, History, Race,

and the American Landscape by LaRette Savoy. Trace was published in 2015. It is LaRette's first solo

work of nonfiction, and it's a memoir that takes her from where she was born in Southern California

across the country to Puritan New England, from Lake Superior to the US Mexico border,

and finally to Washington, D.C., where she grew up.

In the book, LaRette uses the search for her family story as a lens to better understand American

history and the reverse, using the American landscape as a lens to better understand her own past.

In this episode, we'll be sharing excerpts of our conversation with LaRette Savoy

and excerpts of her book, and then talking it out together, you know, like a podcast book club

discussion. Yay! And going forward, we'd love to hear your thoughts and questions about either this

book or the next pick for the book club, which we will announce at the end of the episode.

Yep, so if you want to join the conversation, we are also starting a hashtag, which is

reading outside in, and we invite you to use that hashtag on Twitter or Instagram.

Just share a picture of yourself reading the book.

Perhaps outside, if that's where you should happen to find yourself.

It doesn't have to be the book club pick. If you're reading outside, I'd say it counts.

And again, the hashtag is reading outside in, and make sure to tag us at outside in radio.

We're just, we just want to normalize reading outside in the summer, because it needs normalizing.

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