Danielle Evans and Brit Bennett on the lies we tell ourselves
Podcast: NPR's Book of the DayPublished On: Fri Jul 01 2022
Description: Today, two takes on stories we tell to make ourselves feel better and the consequences of believing them. First, author Danielle Evans' short story collection, The Office of Historical Corrections. The title story is about a fictional agency that fact checks in real time but, as she told former NPR host Noel King, it's less powerful than you might think. Then, the story of a Black woman's decision to pass as white and the decades-long fallout of that choice, in The Vanishing Half. Author Brit Bennett told NPR's Mary Louise Kelly that the point of the story isn't to moralize.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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