Welcome to episode 25 of From the Front Porch, conversationsations on Books, Small Business, and Life in the South.

I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf in downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and I'm joined again by my friend Katie, who is my co-owner at the bookshelf and my friend and almost neighbor.

So welcome Katie.

Today we will be talking about the spectrum of narrative non-fiction what we love and

what we hate and then we'll wrap up with what we're reading right now.

Great, get started. Yeah, so Annie I guess this conversation has its roots in our last book club.

Yes, so we are on episode 25 of the podcast and I believe I texted you thinking

what are we going to talk about? I feel like I'm starting to run dry on inspiration,

but both of us have the same idea.

And I think it came from our last book club

where we tried to discuss the Lemon Tree, a non-fiction book by Sandy

Toulon, tried being the operative word. Yeah, so let me just give a little background of this book.

One of the book club members mentioned it and so the lemon tree is an Arab, a Jew, and the

heart of the Middle East.

And so the idea is that there is this house

in what is now Israel, formerly Palestine,

that two different families lived in.

And the first family that lived in, the Palestinian family,

was then evacuated when the Jews moved into Israel.

And then this Israeli Jewish family moved in.

And the two families through their children build this

relationship so that's how the book is kind of marketed through this story but as

...