![]() ![]() ![]() Once upon a time there were four pregnant women who met in an aerobics gym. Later in the show, we'll hear portions of a commencement speech by Conan O'Brien. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)Īnn Brashares, the New York Times bestselling author of " Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," " The Second Summer of the Sisterhood," " Girls in Pants" and " Forever in Blue." Her latest book, " Sisterhood Everlasting," is the fifth installment in the series. This hour On Point: Traveling Pants author Ann Brashares and “Sisterhood Everlasting.” Ann Brashares, author of Sisterhood Everlasting, in the studio with Tom Ashbrook. ![]() It came along just as American girls were standing up in test scores and college admissions and ambition –- and still asking the oldest questions about life and love and friends.Īuthor Ann Brashares is back with the girls as nearly 30-year-old women now. And boyfriends and girlfriends and “tween” life and loyalty. “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” grabbed a generation of girls and taught them about friendship. Author Ann Brashares stops by On Point to chat about her new book. She joins us to talk about her fifth installment in the series. “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” author Ann Brashares is back with more sisterhood. Facebook Email This article is more than 11 years old. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It’s also a benefit for Never Cry Wolf Rescue, an organization that rescues and places wolves and wolf-dogs. To celebrate the release of the second book in her planned trilogy, The Wolf Chronicles, Hearst is holding a reading on August 14 th where people can meet – and maybe even touch – some real wolves. In her first book, Promise of the Wolves, and in her just-released sequel, Secrets of the Wolves, both set 14,000 years ago, Hearst weaves a tale about Kaalaa, a young wolf who tries to end the divide between humans and her kind. Wolves have not run wild in California for more than 75 years, but that hasn’t prevented Berkeley author Dorothy Hearst from imagining a world populated by them. ![]() ![]() Dorothy Hearst surrounded by wolves, the subject of The Wolf Chronicles trilogy ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s the main reason I waited so long to read Foer’s book, but I just haven’t found a copy yet. My only regret is that I didn’t read The Street of Crocodiles first. The lyrical lines convey the anguish, but the plot is secondary. ![]() The plot revolves around a boy watching his father’s decent into madness or depression. "In the depths of the grayness, weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness." It’s absolutely a gimmick that could be a crutch, but somehow the novel is beautiful and haunting in its own right. It was time-consuming, but that slowed me down enough to reflect on the words. I finally found that the easiest way for me to read it was to place a dark sheet of paper after each page that I read. Every single page is die-cut, which makes it difficult to read. Foer chose his favorite book and then painstakingly chose a few words from each page to craft a new work. The entire book is created out of the text of another book, Bruno Schulz’s The Street of Crocodiles. It’s not one of those books you can easily pick up and read. I bought a copy in 2011 and it’s been on my shelf ever since. I’ve always enjoyed Jonathan Safran Foer’s work, so when this one came out I was immediately intrigued. ![]() This is the strangest concept for a book that I’ve ever read. ![]() |