NPR'S Scott Simon speaks with novelist, Anita Desai, about her new book, "Rosarita," and about the dual lives women can lead.

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Molly recommends Annie Ernaux’s photographic record of a love affair and a sociologist’s study of the moments when conflict ...

In her new memoir, The House of My Mother, Shari Franke questions how things might have been different if her mother, ...