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SUMMARY:PBS Books Readers Club - 'The Women' by Kristin Hannah
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books Readers Club welcomes international best-selling author\, Kristin Hannah to discuss her powerful and most recent novel The Women. The episode premieres on March 26th at 8PM ET as a PBS Books Facebook Live event\, on the PBS Books YouTube channel\, pbsbooks.org\, and the PBS app. \nIn The Women\, Frances “Frankie” McGrath\, a twenty-year-old nursing student\, impulsively decides to join the Army Nurse Corp after her brother is shipped out to fight in the Vietnam War. Her life is changed forever as she is thrust into the chaos and destruction of war\, where friendships are forged\, tested and lost. As she faces the violence and trauma of war\, Frankie also struggles with the challenge of returning home to a nation torn apart by political division\, feeling just as lost and out of place as the soldiers who fought beside her. \nThe Women shines a spotlight on the unsung heroes of the Vietnam War — female nurses who served courageously\, risking their lives to care for others in the midst of danger. \nIn honor of Woman’s History month\, our PBS watch-alike is Call the Midwife\, a period piece about nurses\, midwives and nuns from Nonnatus House as they serve the expectant mothers in London’s East End. Watch past seasons now on the PBS app. Season 14 premiers on March 30th on PBS. \n\nAbout the Author\nKristin Hannah \nKristin Hannah is the award-winning\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 20 novels. Her last book\, The Four Winds\, was the biggest selling hardcover fiction title of 2021. Her previous novels\, The Four Winds\, The Great Alone\, The Nightingale and Firefly Lane were all named Goodreads Best Historical Fiction and her international blockbuster\, The Nightingale\, won the coveted People’s Choice Award for best fiction and was a selection of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club in 2023 and named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon\, iTunes\, Buzzfeed\, the Wall Street Journal\, Paste\, and The Week. In 2018\, The Great Alone became an instant New York Times #1 bestseller\, as did The Four Winds when it was published in February of 2021 as well as becoming #1 on the Wall Street Journal\, USA Today\, and Indie bookstores’ bestseller lists. It was selected as a book club pick by the both the Today Show and the Book Of the Month Club\, which named it the best book of 2021. Firefly Lane\, her beloved novel about two best friends\, was the #1 Netflix series around the world in the week it came out. A former attorney\, Kristin lives in the Pacific Northwest. \n\n About the Hosts\nPrincess Weekes\nPrincess Weekes is an award winning writer and video essayist who works at breaking down the intersections between race\, gender\, and pop culture. Formally an Assistant Editor at The Mary Sue\, co-host of Netflix’s The Geeked Podcast\, and co-host and co-writer on the PBS Digital Series It’s Lit. On weekends she works as a bookseller at a local bookstore. When not reading or writing she can be found playing TTRPGs of cuddling with her cat\, Lola. \n\n\nLauren Smith\nExecutive Producer and host of national PBS programming at Detroit PBS\, Lauren develops content for PBS and other distributors of public media for broadcast\, streaming\, and other digital channels and has executive-produced and/or produced over 60 national broadcast and programs. Her passion is to develop inspiring\, entertaining\, and educational content alongside the best national and international talent\, and to engage important content with communities across the country. Lauren loves to read and has worked to develop and produce PBS Books content for nearly ten years!
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