Librarian and host Sarah chats with Lauren Fox, local author of Send for Me, which follows four generations of women from 1930s Germany to contemporary Milwaukee. Fox talks about writing her first historical novel, her great-grandmother’s letters that inspired the story, and what it was like to have Send for Me picked as a Read With Jenna book and answer readers’ questions on the TODAY show.
Titles discussed in this episode include: Send for Me, Still Life With Husband, Friends Like Us, and Days of Awe, all by Lauren Fox. Also mentioned: Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi, The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris, Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny, and The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel.
Read Lauren Fox’s Lit Hub essay, about sharing family history with the next generation, here: https://lithub.com/our-family-stories-are-the-bridge-between-nature-and-nurture/
Music: Tim Moor via Pixabay

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