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From the Front Porch

Episode 118 || The Other Mother

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Annie and Chris talk about "alternative" visions of motherhood for Mother's Day this year, and it takes a weirdly dark turn. Sorry. Get a sneak peek at Chris's fall Women in Literature class and hear some of Annie's favorite mom-centric books. Chris's class books: + Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie + The Mothers by Brit Bennett + The First Bad Man by Miranda July + Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel + Pregnant Butch by A. K. Summers + Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu + Beloved by Toni Morrison + The Babadook *CORRECTION: The quote from Beloved is "You your own best thing, Sethe," not "You your best self," as previously reported. Some of Annie's favorites: + Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple + The Mothers by Brit Bennett + The Color of Water by James McBride + Rabbit Cake by Annie Harnett + Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan + A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson + This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel + French Milk by Lucy Knisley And please, are there good mother/son novels out there that don't have any sort of implied incest theme? Let me know. I need to know.

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0:00.0

Hey, quick note at the top of the show. I just want to let you know that this episode took kind of a darker turn than we are used to, about two-thirds through, and we started talking kind of in depth about some infant mortality. If that's not something you want to listen to, I totally understand, and we will see you next week. If you're still on board, I hope you enjoy what was otherwise,

0:21.6

well,

0:21.8

and including that,

0:22.5

a very interesting conversation.

0:28.4

I kind of am addicted to this new app

0:31.2

I put on my phone called Boxer.

0:33.1

I don't know what that is.

0:34.4

Okay,

0:34.9

so I get really stressed out by text messages. Okay. Do you? Uh, yes. Okay.

0:41.3

Like, like, sometimes I read them and then in my imagination I have responded to them, but I have not

0:47.7

actually responded to them. Yes. That happens to me a lot. Yes, me too. And then my friends are like,

0:52.2

why did you ghost text me? And I'm like, why is that even a thing?

0:56.7

I recently heard somebody talk about double texting. What is that? And it's when you're having

1:01.8

conversation with somebody and they don't respond and then you say something else. Oh, I do that.

1:07.3

I know. I call that conversation. Right. I didn't know that there had to be like another name for it, but somebody recently was like, oh yeah, sorry for double texting you. And I was like, no. If you had two things to say, then say two things. Why are you apologizing? Also, that's what I do all the time. Yeah. No, me too. Okay. Well, and I don't know that this app is going to be for you or anything,

1:27.6

but I listened to somebody talking about it on a podcast or something. So Voxer is where you can

1:32.8

leave people voice messages. Oh, nope, I hate it. Okay, but I love it because I don't like talking

1:37.4

on the phone. Right. And text message stress me out. Right. But sometimes I just want to leave, like,

1:42.1

basically a voice memo for someone that basically in 30

1:45.7

seconds or a minute says something funny or like something that would take too long for me to text.

1:51.4

But it's funny and I want them to know about it.

1:54.0

So it's like haytale.

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