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on to today's show. Today's book joins a growing category of books

trying to explain and talk about the hard world of caretaking. There's now a certain generation of

people who, you know, if they aren't taking care of kids, are taking care of parents. But while

those books I'm thinking of are generally nonfiction,

Teddy's book is a book of poetry.

It's by Kevin Powell titled,

Grocery Shopping with My Mother.

And it's about Powell and his complicated relationship

with his own elderly mother, who is ill.

There's love there, to be sure,

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