Hello book nerds. It's Thursday, which means you've been waiting with bated breath for just this moment.

It is the bookcase with Kate and Charlie. I am the Kate part of the Kate and Charlie part.

It's just Thursday, but now you're we can begin. I'm Charlie Gibson.

Yeah, exactly.

The father of this father-daughter duo talking books.

And we've got an unusual book for you this week. It's a book of short stories. The name of the book is

Neighbors. The author is a woman named Diane Oliver. What's unusual about it? First of all,

she is just in effect being discovered as an exciting new author.

And secondly, she's been dead for almost 60 years. She was born in 1943, and she died in a motorcycle accident at the age of 22.

So how did the world find this book? Kate, how did you find the book? Well, so we have an email

address set up for a publicist to send me emails about new books. And when I opened this one and I said,

Diane Oliver and Tari Jones is, is blurbing her. Well, I got to find out who this person is.

I've never heard of her. And then it turns out she's dead. So I'm now sort of intrigued. And I wrote the publicist and I said,

okay, so what are you offering? And he said, well, I don't know, take a look at the book and tell me

what you think. And so I read the book and she was a revelation to me. I have no doubt that if

Diane Oliver had lived to her ripe old age, she would be amongst the contemporaries of Maya Angelou, Tony Morrison. When I read the

description of the book, it describes the first short story, which is called Neighbors, which is about

an African-American child being sent as the first African-American child to enforce school integration

laws. And, you know, of course, you've all seen the pictures of the courageous kids walking the

gauntlet to get to school. And that is what I associate with school integration. I had never

thought about what it would be like in the household the night before you send that kid to school.

What is it like for those parents to look at their child and say, I'm sending them tomorrow

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