Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

This morning on Weekend Edition Sunday, they featured a book written by the singer/songwriter John Darnielle (of the Mountain Goats): Wolf in White Van. Listen her for the interview: http://www.npr.org/2014/09/14/3479956...

Today on Weekend Edition Saturday, they interviewed Jenny Nordberg who has written a book about the "Underground Girls of Kabul", girls who are raised as boys. Sounds interesting: http://www.npr.org/2014/09/20/3498590...

A memoir also featured on Weekend Edition Saturday written by Anne Sinclair, who knew Pablo Picasso when she was a child, : http://www.npr.org/2014/09/20/3500832...

Can you write a history of the universe using only the 1,000 most used words in the English language?

That's the challenge that astrophysicist Roberto Trotta set himself. NPR's Wade Goodwin interviewed him this morning on Weekend Edition: http://www.npr.org/2014/09/21/3503160...

Paul Theroux has a new book out, a collection of short stories. Scott Simon on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday interviews him here: http://www.npr.org/2014/09/27/3515290...

Sarah Waters was interviewed this morning on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday about her new historical novel: http://www.npr.org/2014/09/28/3521985...

Steven Johnson was interviewed on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday this morning: http://www.npr.org/2014/09/28/3521984...

about his new book

Jane Smiley was interviewed this morning on Weekend Edition about her new book : http://www.npr.org/2014/10/05/3535280...

Just found this thread - I hope you can help me Kirsten since you listen to NPR too. a while back, probably a year or more ago, I listened to a female author reading from her novel, and never got either her name or the name of the book. It sounded like a good one, though and I cannot figure it out for the life of me. I've searched through the npr archives to no avail. The section she was reading was about a woman who was searching for her brother. She had found where he lived, apparently he was a surfer without much else going on. He was living in a trailer. Gosh its' been so long I can't remember much more. I just know it sounded really good. Any clue? Thanks!