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cover of episode 'The Last Suspicious Holdout' looks at how humans keep on believing

'The Last Suspicious Holdout' looks at how humans keep on believing

2022/3/31
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Author Ladee Hubbard's new collection of short stories, The Last Suspicious Holdout, all take place in a nameless, majority Black suburb in the 90s and early 2000s. The stories all connect and intertwine with each other over time; telling the story of this community. Hubbard told NPR's Juana Summers that she was "interested in people that keep going, that survive hardships and find a way to keep believing and working towards things getting better" and those transformations were emblematic of the community as a whole.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices)NPR Privacy Policy)