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Kelly talks with New York Times bestselling author Gayle Forman about her new book, about the afterlife, and about the growth and evolution of YA as a category.
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Books Discussed
After Life) by Gayle Forman
Our Town) by Thornton Wilder
Elsewhere) by Gabrielle Zevin
The Everafter) by Amy Huntley
The Lovely Bones) by Alice Sebold
Not Nothing) by Gayle Forman
How to Read a Book) by Monica Wood
When The World Tips Over) by Jandy Nelson
On a Wing and a Tear) by Cynthia Leitich Smith
One Day) by David Nicholls
Wicked) by Gregory Maguire
Shoutouts to Lexapro and Zoloft
Gayle emailed the following additional recommendations from our segment on books about/related to the afterlife: The In Between) by Hadley Vlahos, Briefly Perfectly Human) by Alua Arthur, When Breath Becomes Air) by Paul Kalinthi, and Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal).
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