Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and reading and more. I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today is another

episode of the Stacks Book Club. We're discussing Pulitzer Prize finalist The Light of

the World by Elizabeth Alexander. To help us discuss this book about grief and family and creating a life worth living we have Danny McClain who is the author of We live for the we. There are no spoilers this week.

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All right, let's dive into our conversation with Danny McClain about the light of the world by Elizabeth Alexander.

All right, you guys, we are back again today with Danny McClain, who is the author of We Live

for the We.

Today for the Stax Book Club, we're discussing the light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander, which was a Pulitzer

Prize finalist in 2016.

And it's the story of Elizabeth Alexander and her husband who passed away suddenly right at the age of 50 and it's an

an incredible book Elizabeth Alexander is a poet but it's a memoir written in prose, but it has a lot of poetry in it in her writing and there are not spoilers today necessarily, but we're going to talk about the book in detail.

If you didn't know the book was about her husband dying, that's pretty much the only

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