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Audio: The Brian Lehrer Show: Books That Change Minds About Family


As patrons nominate their libraries for the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards, host Brian Lehrer talks to writers about “Books That Changed My Mind.” In this episode, Andrew Solomon, author of the award-winning best-seller, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, and Cris Beam, professor of creative writing at Columbia University and New York University, and the author of To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care, talk about the exceptional families they’ve written about.