Episode 510 || Unsung Books of 2024
Happy New Year! This week on From the Front Porch, Annie chats about the unsung books that may have flown under your radar and deserve more airtime.
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Family Family by Laurie Frankel
A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan
One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman by Abi Maxwell
The Book of George by Kate Greathead
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Welcome to From the Front Porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South.
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“War brings out the worst in people, Mateo’s father had said to him when he was a little older. No — actually war shows us the worst that was already there.”
- Shilpi Somaya Gowda, A Great Country
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I’m Annie Jones, owner of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week, I’m sharing my favorite “unsung” books of 2024. Now is a great time to follow The Bookshelf over on Instagram. As we kick off the new year, we’re posting about Shelf Subscription selections for January, upcoming events, and more. Following us on Instagram is a great way to ensure you don’t miss what’s coming up next. Follow us over on Instagram at bookshelftville, where you can keep up with all of our upcoming store events, behind-the-scenes shenanigans, and staff book recommendations.
[00:01:17] Happy New Year! Happy New Year, everybody. Can you believe we made it? Can you believe it's 2025? I have ambivalent feelings about New Year's Eve as a holiday, as a concept. But I love a fresh start. I love the turning of a calendar page. I love feeling like anything is possible. It's like Miss Stacy in Anne of Green Gables. Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it-- or at least no mistakes in it yet. That's how I feel about New Year's. So happy New Year. It's January. But before we fully say goodbye to 2024-- although, believe you me, I was ready-- I do want to look back and see what titles I wished I'd shared more about, the unsung books that may have flown under your radar in 2024. Not all of these book recommendations are fully maybe five stars. They probably aren't even the best books I read last year or I would have already talked about them.
[00:02:16] Instead, these are the books I quietly and really enjoyed. But maybe they didn't get as much play time as books like James or even something quirky like Margo's Got Money Troubles. So here are some books that I think you might want to read in this first part of 2025 as we look back on 2024. The first is Family Family by Laurie Frankel. I read this book. It was one of the first books, actually, I read in 2024. And I think what can sometimes happen in those early months of reading is you almost hesitate-- well, I don't know about you. I almost hesitate to fully give five stars because I think, well, this can't possibly be five stars. Look at what could be coming. It's too soon in the year to be passing out grand proclamations like this is the best book I've ever read. Or this book is worth five stars. And so I always find myself, especially in those early reading weeks of the new year, hesitating to fully go all in or fully embrace a book.
[00:03:21] And I think when I look back, that might be what happened to Family. Family. This book was released in January of last year. I read it in January of last year. And I really like Laurie Frankel. She wrote a book several years ago now called This Is How It Always Is, which is a book that I still occasionally think about. I really liked it. Laurie Frankel reminds me of Jodi Picoult meets Amy Poeppel. And what I mean is she's writing this kind of dysfunctional family fiction, but it's rooted in real life issues, things that maybe we hear about on the news; deeply personal and intimate relationships and identities that maybe fiction can help us put some skin on, if that makes sense, for lack of a better term. So I read Family Family back in January of 2024 when it released. I rated it four and a half stars. And I thought I would just read a little bit of my initial review and then we'll talk about the book of it.
[00:04:25] So I said back in January, past Annie said, "Years ago I read This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel and loved it. Family Family is sure to appeal to the same kind of reader and it will create interesting conversations for book clubs. Family Family has a wide cast of memorable characters, many of them young and precocious and completely compelling. The story centers around India Allwood, an actress whose world blows up when she makes some off the cuff comments about adoption while promoting her latest movie. What results is a great dysfunctional family story with some thought provoking things to say about adoption and the families and homes we build for ourselves." I loved this book. I really liked this book. I don't know why I didn't think more about this book as the year progressed except to say it released in January. I read it in January and promptly moved on with my life. And then it occurred to me I really didn't see this book very many places this year, including my own bookstore.
[00:05:25] We definitely stocked it, but I don't really even know how many copies we sold. And that's a real shame because this is just a great story. As I said in my initial review, India Allwood is kind of the main character, the protagonist. She's an actress and she is making a comeback. She's done a new hit movie or a movie that they want to be a hit, I guess I should say. They're not quite sure what's going to come of it. But she is doing the press rounds and she makes an off the cuff comment about adoption, all the while having two children who she adopted herself. And so there's a lot in this book about adoption and adoptive parenting. I have a lot of people in my life who are adoptive parents or who were adopted themselves. And so I thought this story was super interesting and managed to tackle a lot of issues and topics around adoption, really with a deft hand, which I think was something Laurie Frankel is really good at.
[00:06:29] I think it's really hard to do. I think it's really hard to do in 2024/2025 where you can handle some of these heavy hitting precarious issues with a deft, nuanced hand. And I think Laurie Frenkel does that while at the same time-- so that's why she reminds me of Jodi Picoult. But while at the same time just telling a really good story, I mentioned these precocious kids in the book. They could have so been obnoxious and they weren't obnoxious at all. They were really fun. I love those characters in the book. It's just a family you're rooting for. And India Allwood feels familiar. She feels like maybe somebody we might know who makes a gaffe and then has to figure out how she's not going to ruin her life from this misstep. And then her own story and background comes to light as the pages turn. If you have not read this yet, I would encourage you to pick it up, particularly if you read and love This Is How It Always Is. Because if you read that one, then you're very familiar with Laurie Frankel style of writing. You're very familiar with her storytelling capabilities. But even if you didn't, I think this one's worth trying.
[00:07:36] Again, it deals a lot with adoption and adoptive parenting, but I really thought handled it quite beautifully. So I think if I recall, I'm trying to remember now, but I feel like both India Allwood and Laurie Frankel-- India Allwood is the main character, Laurie Frankel is the author. I think Laurie Frankel did an author's note or something in her acknowledgments where she said she wanted to write a book that showed maybe the redemptive parts of adoption and adoptive parenting that, yes, there is trauma and yes there are really hard things, but it can be beautiful, too. And I think she succeeded with this book. So I'm sorry that I didn't talk about it more because I really did like it. And maybe I even talked about it in a last year podcast episode, probably the January Reading Recap episode. It'd be interesting to go back and listen and see what I said initially. But this is a book I wish had gotten more attention and I hope maybe now it will. That is Family Family by Laurie Frankel.
[00:08:35] Another unsung book I think should have gotten more attention is the book that I quoted at the top of the episode and that is A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda. This book released in March of 2024. I am pretty sure it is a debut. It's all about the Shah family living in Pacific Hills, California. It's just a tiny little slip of a novel about being a model minority in America. It's extremely compulsively readable, fast paced storytelling. So it's one of those books that if you've got a 2025 reading bingo card or some kind of reading challenge you're trying to do and you're looking for a short slim book, I think this should fit the bill. It reminds me a lot of Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. And I don't know if sometimes a genre of book or a book covering certain subject matter gets so much play that then readers kind of grow weary of it. And I wonder if that is what A Great Country kind of suffered from. And I think that's unfortunate because it's a really well-written, excellent book about a family who I really did care deeply for. And yeah there are some parts of this book that maybe are a little on the nose. I'll read some of my initial thoughts from my review that I wrote last year.
[00:09:59] So there's some parts that are a little bit on the nose, but she's written such a realistic family and I cared for every person in this family and I wanted to know what happened to them. So it's about the Shah family living in Pacific Hills, California. The book opens with the son of the Shah's being arrested and the Shah's are at a dinner party. I read a lot of books in 2024, actually, that dealt with class and money. Books like Come and Get It. Books like Entitlement. I think this could sit happily alongside these titles on a shelf. Let me tell you what I initially wrote about this book. I gave it four stars. I read it at the end of February of last year. The book released later last year in March. So here's what I initially had to say about a great country. "I had put down two or three books because they weren't quite propulsive enough for my current tastes, then tried A Great Country, which captured my attention from the first page. While having dinner with new friends, the Shah parents receive a call from the local police department. Their 12 year old son is in police custody. From there, the story of the Indian American Shah's unfolds, told across a couple of weeks as each member of the family faces not only the repercussions of young ages arrest, but the realities of being a model minority in America. The novel isn't perfect. It occasionally felt a little preachy or on the nose, but I grew attached to the Shah's and was desperate to know what would happen to them.".
[00:11:27] As I recall, it's obviously been a minute, but AJ is the 12 year old son. There's a sister character who I really related quite a bit to. And then constantly even a book like-- one of my favorite books of the last decade or so is a place for us. I know I've mentioned that book several times on the podcast, but one of my favorite parts about that book is the way the author plays with different generations and how they deal with their American identity. And this family, the Shah family, you can tell that they're kids who probably identify more solidly as American versus the parents who immigrated from India and probably still identify quite a bit as Indian. You can see that generational battle and the struggle as maybe the kids are more comfortable and more understanding and more knowledgeable about American identity and politics. And their parents are still trying desperately to make a name for themselves.
[00:12:31] And, again, there's a lot about class and money in this book. Even this dinner party that the Shah's are at sticks out in my memory. The way that Gowda wrote it, I can so vividly picture this family trying to make it in this bougie neighborhood. And then they get a phone call that their son, who's only 12, is in jail and the embarrassment and the surprise on their faces. Anyway, I loved this book. And when I was going through my list of what titles I wanted to talk about, I thought, did I even talk about that book last year? Because I should have. Maybe I featured it in a literary lunch or a Literary First Look. I honestly can't remember, but I really liked it. And I think if you liked Little Fires Everywhere, you'll really like this. And it's short enough where it's low risk, it's low commitment. So that is a great country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda.
[00:13:24] Now, let's talk about a little book named What Happened to Nina by Dervla McTiernan. I loved this book. It's a thriller, mystery, suspense. Fantastic. Has one of the worst covers I saw last year, and I have no doubt that's why this book was unsung, because I just think the cover is off putting. So What Happened to Nina released in March of 2024? And the good news for you as a listener/reader is it's coming to paperback next month. And I did look this up and at first they kept the same cover. And I was shocked. I really was shocked. You can Google it, but the cover is a photo of a young woman in sunglasses kind of standing in a desert kind of dirt road. And I just can't stress enough how weird of a choice it is. I don't understand it. And pretty much everyone I've talked to also doesn't understand it. So when I saw the paperback book in one of my publisher catalogs, I could not believe they didn't change the cover. But when I went back and looked, they have changed the cover. So you won't fully understand unless you Google for the hardcover edition. But the paperback, which releases in February, is a new cover. So congratulations. That will make this, I think, a lot more sellable, at least on our shelves.
[00:14:47] I picked this up solely because of two book podcasters, Sarah's Bookshelves, and then What Maddie Read. I believe that's her Instagram handle name. I'll link to them in the show notes. But I had obviously seen this because after I saw Sarah post about it and Maddie post about it, I went to the Bookshelf. I think it was a Saturday. In fact, I'm confident it was a Saturday. I read it in June. And I went with a friend to The Bookshelf and got to be a customer, which was super fun. And we had this on the shelves and I am our front list book buyer and so I must have picked this or Kyndall stocked it on request. And so found it on our shelves, but really would not have were it not for Sarah and Maddie. Part of the reason the cover is so bizarre is the book is actually set in winter. So I love seasonal reading. I read this in June, but lucky you, you're going to get to read it in winter. It's fast paced about a young woman named Nina. She goes out of town on a weekend getaway with her longtime boyfriend, Simon. They go to his family's cabin in the woods, but only Simon leaves. Nina is nowhere to be found.
[00:16:02] And what unfolds feels pretty original for a synopsis that you've probably heard before. And that is what I really liked about this book. I feel like it could have read just like any other thriller. And that's fine. I like a thriller. But I actually felt like it was pretty original. So I'm going to read you my initial thoughts. I rated these four and a half stars, which that's high for a thriller. Here's one of the quotes that I pulled from the book, which I do really like. "Basically, the rule is that you have to talk about your kid as if he's something between a mild and a serious convenience to the life you actually want to live. What you are not allowed to say is that they are the light and purpose you live for, not at least, until you lose them." That's such a good quote. Okay, here's my initial review. "I cannot wait to see what the paperback edition of this book looks like because I'd be willing to bet this cover has deterred many a reader. Or is it just me? We stocked this one at the store, but only when I saw other bookstagrammers postings about it did I decide to try it for myself. And you know what? It's fantastic. A page turning thriller I couldn't put down, fast paced and believable. All about a young woman who goes missing after spending the weekend with her wealthy boyfriend. It had just enough twists and turns to keep me guessing. And even though it's set in the winter, I enjoyed it as a by the pool read."
[00:17:23] This was my initial review, but I would agree with past Annie. This is for fans of the Lovely Bones and author Kimberly McRae. So if that's the type of thriller you're normally drawn to, I think you'll really like this one. Again, did not intend for this to be the case. But as I'm reminiscing about this book, What Happened to Nina also deals a lot with money and class because in the book, Simon is quite wealthy. He takes Nina to his family's-- I'm almost picturing like a Kennedy-esque cabin in the woods for like a winter getaway. I think they're going to go like cross-country skiing or hiking or something. And Simon leaves, but Nina doesn't. And at first Simon and his family kind of cooperate with the police, with Nina's distraught parents. But then the walls start closing in and you can see the code of silence that sometimes the really wealthy participate in. And so you can watch Nina's parents who are more I guess I would say middle class not quite know what to do because these aren't the rules they play by. And they're a little flummoxed as to how Simon and his parents are getting away with not talking.
[00:18:43] And I really liked how this novel dealt with class and wealth and money on top of everything else. It's just a really good thriller, had a lot of twists and turns. I raved about this one when I got back to work. Again, I do think the cover really did deter the sales of this one, at least in our store, but I'm hopeful that with the paperback edition coming out, it might find a new audience. And, again, it's set in winter and so not sure why it released in March of last year, but with a paperback coming out in February, I think it might hit a different audience. So that is What Happened to Nina by Dervla McTiernan. If you're looking for a cozy thriller or cozy thriller, mystery, I do find myself drawn to those this time of year. I think this will work for you.
[00:19:24] Now I want to talk about One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman. This is a memoir by Abi Maxwell. It's my only nonfiction on this list of Unsung Books. It released in September 2024. And that is, I believe, when I read it. I had intended to read it earlier. I downloaded a copy of the ARC to my Kindle, and I didn't really think about it. And then somehow or another it crossed my path. And so I picked it up and I really, really liked it. So Abi Maxwell is a writer. She was born and raised in New Hampshire. She absolutely loves this part of the world. She and her husband met, I think, somewhere in the mid-West, if I recall. But she loves and loved her upbringing so much that she really wanted to raise her own children in New Hampshire. So she and her husband moved back to New Hampshire and they have a child together. And as they start raising the child, this young kid, it quickly becomes apparent they want to use different pronouns. They find their identity in a gender that maybe is not the gender of their birth.
[00:20:38] And so now Abi Maxwell and her husband are raising a trans kid in this tiny town in New Hampshire. And as much as this book is about activism and trans kids’ rights and things like that (and perhaps this is one of the many reasons it stuck out to me) it is also about what it's like to stay in a place that stops making sense for you. So I just wrote a book and I'm publishing a book this year about staying. And I think a lot of us wind up staying in communities, in institutions, and I think there's real value in staying. I think there's a story to be told about staying, but it was really interesting to have just written a book like that and then to read a book by a woman who wants to stay but very much feels like she cannot due to the safety of her child and how this place that she loved and once cocooned her does not take as much care with her child. This book is poignant, heart wrenching, eye opening. I think I read some reviews of this one that may be felt like it was too much from the perspective of a straight white lady. But she's a mom and a mom who clearly loves and cares deeply for her kid and who wants to do the best she can by her kid.
[00:22:06] If you liked the documentary Will and Harper that released last year, and I did, I think you'll really like this book. Let me read you my initial review. I gave this book four stars. The quote that I pulled from the book was this, which I thought was powerful and convicting. "I didn't need anyone's hidden support. I needed their voices. One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman was a memoir I downloaded to my Kindle months ago, and when I realized it released in September, I moved it up my TBR list. Abi Maxwell is a writer who grew up in rural New Hampshire. Her roots there runs so deep that when she and her husband have their first child, they immediately move back to the area to provide an idyllic, outdoorsy childhood for their little one. Instead, when their child turns six, she changes her pronouns, grows her hair long, and begins wearing dresses. The home where they thought they'd stay forever all of a sudden becomes claustrophobic, even dangerous. This, then, is a mother's memoir. It's a book about parenting, about activism, about trans youth. It stretched my heart and my brain in all kinds of ways."
[00:23:16] This was a book that really did stick with me. Again, you can go read other critical reviews. And certainly some of those reviews I think make valid points. But for me and for someone who needs my eyes opened, I think, to people in different geographical places for me, in different life stages and identities for me. I really appreciated this one and was so grateful Abi Maxwell chose to write it. It's incredibly vulnerable and touching. And you can just sense the love and care she had in trying to tell her child's story while also telling her story, which I think is really complicated, really tricky. I think about that a lot with writers who are also parents. And how do you tell somebody's story that's not fully yours? It's not fully your story to tell.
[00:24:07] And so you can see Abi Maxwell struggling with that. Like, how does she tell her version of events while also protecting her kid and her kid’s story? So from a writerly perspective, this is really fascinating. Again, just like Laurie Frankel's, Family Family, I really like books that take these topics that we hear about on the news or in headlines but maybe we don't go beyond that because maybe we don't have literal neighbors or people in our lives living out those headlines and living out those topics. And so I appreciate books for introducing me and I think I said earlier, putting skin on a story. And so I'm really grateful for that. So One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman is a book that I still think about. And I'm not sure why more people didn't discuss it. I thought it was excellent.
[00:25:02] Okay. Last but not least, Book of George by Kate Greathead. This released in October of 2024. I do think it got some buzz, but I think it maybe got a little bit overshadowed by the Dolly Alderton book Good Material. Certainly there is some overlap in the material that these two books cover. The Book of George is not going to be for everybody. And that might also be one of the reasons why it is kind of an unsung book for me. I think in terms of writing and storytelling, it certainly is worthy of any praise it received. But I think George himself is a bit messy. And so I can see why a reader might be initially perhaps a little bit put off. So The Book of George I initially rated four and a half stars, and this is the quote I pulled from the book in my first review. "You think you're too good to be anything short of exceptional, and maybe you could have been exceptional if you had the humility and discipline to commit to whatever it was you decided to do and really go for it. Which is scary because what if you were just okay or merely competent? And thus is the story of George.".
[00:26:09] I think the book has been called a Treatise on Millennial Masculinity. I do think that does my millennial men who I really respect a disservice. And I have a lot of millennial men. Believe it or not, I have a lot of millennial men who I really do respect and love. I'm married to one and the sister to one. But I absolutely have met millennial men just like George. And so here is my initial review just to give you kind of an idea of what Kate Greathead has explored in the Book of George. "This is a book about an average white man. We trace George from his adolescence into middle age, and the result is a thoughtful, relatively humorous look into millennial masculinity. Some readers will not like this. It is character-driven and George is frequently a pretty unlikable character. I though loved it. I was mesmerized by Kate Greathead's ability to treat George with gentleness while also being very clear about his flaws and missteps. I found myself occasionally rooting for George, despite how very annoying he could be. Which is a true testament to the story Greathead has written. So really nothing happens in this book.".
[00:27:18] This is The Book of George. If you all remember-- and I do think this book had some plot. But if you all remember the book, Sam, which I thought was a lovely book about a young girl and her growing up. And it really covered Sam from when she was a kid into her early adulthood. This book is told in vignettes about George. We meet George, I believe, when he's about 14. I think that's right, 13 or 14. And we, I think, end the book when he is in his early 40s. And so the book spans a couple of decades, all again, told in vignettes. We're not introduced to a ton of people except for George; although, his mom and then his longtime girlfriend, Jenny, play pretty active roles. And boy, I mean, I am thinking of a particular scene revolving around a Super Bowl ad that just made me cackle. I thought it was so funny. And even though this is a book about millennial masculinity, I also do just think it's a book about the millennial experience. And I like millennials. I am one. I think we get thrown under the bus a lot. But at the same time, there is some real truth to a generation of people who was told they could do anything. And you know what happens when you grow up and realize that's not really true. You really can't just do anything. Or what happens when you've been told you're exceptional and turns out, no, you're average and that's okay.
[00:28:51] I thought this was so smart. I thought this book was so smart. I think it'd make a great book club conversation. We have an episode coming up later this month about book club recommendations. But I think this would make a great book club book because not everybody is going to like this. There will be some people who read this and are like, what is the point? Nothing happens. We just meet George. This is not a spoiler; George does not have some beautiful, redemptive arc. This is just a few snapshots of a man. But I think there's a lot to unpack here in a book club conversation. And the writing is great. I'm smiling reminiscing about it. And so, for me, I did not see this book as many places as I thought as it deserved to be seen. And so I really wanted to give it a moment here. I rated it four and a half stars. So I think it's a book I really loved, and I'm not quite sure why it didn't get the attention it deserved except Good Material by Dolly Alderton covers some similar territory quite well. And so perhaps that might be part of the issue there.
[00:29:54] So those are some of my favorite unsung books of last year, many of them releasing in paperback over the next few months. But I think this would be a great time-- we don't do a ton of backlist titles here on From the Front Porch. We've tried to get better about it. But the fact of the matter is as a bookstore, we're selling mostly or majority frontlist titles. So now's your chance to get this from your local bookstore, to check these out from your local library because they're no longer hot new releases. These are books that have been out a minute, but I do think deserve your time and attention and are worth a second glance. Maybe if you saw them on a bookstore display but didn't pick it up last year, don't write 2024 off just yet. I think there's still some good books from that year that deserve your attention. So Family Family by Laurie Frankel. A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda. What Happened to Nina? By Dervla McTiernan. One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman by Abi Maxwell. And The Book of George by Kate Greathead. All of these books can be found on the store website. You can just type today's episode number in the search bar and you'll see them come up. Today's episode number is 510.
[00:31:05] This week I'm reading Rental House by Weiki Wang.
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