Spoken Word

These two authors are going to be talking about their books on the radio program "Spoken Word" (http://www.spokenwordradio.org/upcoming_programs.shtml), and I am intrigued:

Once Upon a Day by Lisa Tucker
(Featured in the April BookPage and called "catnip for book clubs" by PW)
Having been raised in utopian isolation by her once-famous Hollywood father, twenty-three-year-old Dorothea leaves their New Mexico sanctuary in search of her missing brother, befriends a homeless jazz singer and a doctor-turned cabdriver, and discovers terrifying truths about her family's past.


Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel
Facing an early midlife crisis after being fired, twenty-eight-year-old Dwight B. Wilmerding is unable to decide on a new career or on a girlfriend, an indecisiveness that he attempts to alleviate with a trial pharmaceutical aimed at enhancing courage and self-confidence, and heads to Ecuador to search for Natasha, an exotic former classmate.