Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaung. Today's interview reminded me to stop spending so much time online. If you happen to need that reminder today, well, give it a listen. It's between here and Nuz, Deepa Fernandez, and the writer Britt Barron, who's got a book titled, Do You Still Talk to Grandma? And it's more than just a Pollyanna take on loving people who you disagree with in these

divided times.

But it's also a really rigorous and introspective look at what's driving our binary thinking

and what we lose when we can't hold two competing thoughts in our heads and our hearts.

That's coming up.

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When people have opinions we don't agree with or beliefs that we think are close-minded,

it's tempting to shut them out to cancel

them. But sometimes these are people we love, siblings, parents, even old friends who you don't want to

or can't cut out of your life. In her new book, Do You Still Talk to Grandma, when the problematic

people in our lives are the ones we love?

Britt Barron explains how to love people you disagree with without sacrificing your own ideals.

Britt Barron joins us now.

Britt, welcome.

Hi.

Good to have you.

So, Britt, this is such a tricky topic that really many of us deal with.

Do you think that people have become more critical and judgmental than, say, we used to be more ready to just cut someone out, stop talking to them completely?

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