This week on The Reading Life: Rising star of Mexican fiction and New Orleanian Yuri Herrera, whose new novel is Transmigration of Bodies, and Kerry Hamilton, who’s the ambassador his great grandmother’s book, Trials of the Earth The True Story of a Pioneer Woman by Mary Mann Hamilton. And Susan reviews Lionel Shriver’s The Mandibles, 2029-2047.
**Lagniappe Audio**
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Kerry Hamilton talks about how Morgan Freeman is a fan of his ancestor's book.