Miles of Books: Three Novels That Explore Women's Lives

Another Mother Runner

Feisty Media

Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Miles of Books, Sarah and Ellison discuss three novels that each explore women’s lives, family roles, and the complicated ways mothers shape their children’s worlds. From the feminist awakening at the center of Meet the Newmans, to the fallout of desire and family upheaval in Lake Effect, to a fresh reimagining of Cinderella in Lady Tremaine, this conversation is full of sharp insights, lively plot setup, and plenty of reasons to add these books to your list.

Books discussed:

Meet the Newmans by Jennifer Niven
Lake Effect by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Miles of Books, a book-centric show to take along on your run from another mother
0:12.3	mother runner in Feisty Media.
0:13.7	I'm your host Sarah Bowen-Shay and I'm joined by Ellison Weist to talk about three new novels.
0:18.7	Hello, Ellison.
0:19.8	Hey there, Sarah. How are you?
0:22.6	I'm good. I'm good. How are you doing?
0:25.6	I'm good. I'm excited to talk about these three.
0:28.6	Yeah, so am I. So let's just jump right into our first novel, which is Meet the Newman's.
0:35.6	Let me see if I can do this so that we can get it on screen.
0:39.8	Has a very cute cover.
0:42.0	I love the colors.
0:43.2	Hey, it kind of matches my sweater.
0:45.1	So Meet the Newman's.
0:46.5	It's by Jennifer Niven.
0:48.1	And it was recommended by a longtime listener, which we always appreciate.
0:51.5	Yes.
0:52.5	And I enjoyed it so much that I found myself trying to carve out snippets of time to read it.
0:59.5	Get this.
1:00.0	One morning, I woke up naturally before my alarm, like kind of well before my alarm.
1:05.3	And usually, you know, if I do that, I'll try to go back to sleep.
1:08.9	That doesn't always work.
1:10.9	Or I'll lift weights, something like that.
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