Mitch Albom Wrote a Tale of Lies and Truth

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Mitch Albom became a household name with his bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie. His new novel, The Little Liar, is an original and fascinating look at the complexities of truth and what motivates us to lie. It takes place during the Holocaust, at the height of which a little boy tells a lie that affects the rest of his life… coloring all that he is and everything he does. We thought this was a fascinating book and we wanted to talk to Mitch about what drove him to write it. We get a little philosophical in this episode, although every issue is worth talking about this holiday season. Happy Holidays to you and yours! Books mentioned in this week's podcast: The Little Liar by Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom The Five Strangers You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.2	Welcome back, welcome back, bookcasers. I hope you're having a good holiday season. This is the bookcase with Kate and Charlie, and I'm the Charlie Part. Charlie Gibson. I'm the Kate Part. Happy holidays. I hope you're getting to spend it with friends and family this time of year.
0:49.3	It is a blessed season. And you come out of Thanksgiving, counting your blessings, and you count them all the way through December as well. This week we have Mitch Elbaum. If you don't know the name, you do know
0:57.9	the book Tuesdays with Mori, which I think, as I mentioned in the conversation, has been read by
1:02.0	every single living American. And he's written a new book called The Little Lire, which is a really
1:06.5	interesting premise. Well, the genesis of the story is interesting, as he'll explain to you. It's something that he heard about at the Holocaust Museum when he was in Europe. And it's about
1:15.5	lying and about the consequences of lies that we tell. It involves an 11-year-old boy who tells a
1:22.1	lie that has consequences for him all of his life. When you grow up, the basic lessons that
1:27.2	your parents teach you, I think,
1:28.4	is truth and honesty good, lying bad. And I think this book is an exploration of the fact that it's
1:35.5	really not that simple. Truth is a very complicated thing. And I'm not saying that there is
1:41.8	such a thing as an alternative fact. I want to be clear about that.
1:45.2	But I think the role of truth and the role of lying is a big gray area and much more complicated than
1:52.3	honesty, good, lying bad. And I think this book explores that through the lens of the Holocaust,
1:57.4	which is about the most intense way to look at truth you possibly probably
2:01.2	can look at truth. And it's an intense book. The book spans the years from, I guess, 1936, around
2:08.0	there it starts, and it goes on through the 1980s as the principal character really wants to
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