Welcome to The Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them.

I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and it is The Stacks' Book Club Day.

Minda Honey, author of The Heartbreak Years, returns to the show to talk about Tar Baby by

Tony Morrison.

It is both of our first times reading this classic novel, which dissects race, class,

colorism, and privilege through a complicated, international, love, and family story.

It pairs Morrison's famously poetic prose with tragedy, comedy, suspense, and biting

social commentary, and some of the best scenes in a novel that I have ever read.

There are a ton of spoilers on today's episode, so make sure you read the book before

you listen.

Also, if you're new here, just want to let you know that we have dissected a different

Tony Morrison novel every single year of the Stacks podcast, so if you have not listened

before, we have episodes on The Blueest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved,

and a Mercy.

Go back and check those out.

Make sure you listen all the way through to the end of today's episode to find out what

our November Book Club pick will be, and a quick reminder, everything we talk about on

each episode of The Stacks can be found in the link in the show notes.

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If you didn't know, the stacks is a black woman created and run independent podcast

all about books.

I love, love, love.

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