This is Nicole English coming to you from the Sociology Department at Fort Hays State University for HPPR's Book-Bytes.. This is a discussion of the book
Hi, I am Phillip Periman from Amarillo, one of the discussants for the High Plains Radio Readers’ Book Club. One of the three books we are reading this
Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas. Our Spring Read,
Cultures in a Common Land, invites us to think about conflicts between our ways of life and the customs, habits, and traditions of others. We began our spring read with Barbara Kingsolver’s
Poisonwood Bible, a novel that plunks a 1950’s family from the American South into the middle of the African Congo. Not versed in the customs or the geography of the land, and slow to learn, each member of the Price family adapts or dies. In which character, I wonder, do we see something of ourselves? Could we expect different outcomes, a different ending, if more of the characters had, like Anatole, been willing to act like cultural guides, to teach and explain, and like Leah, interested and willing to learn?
Hi, I’m Marcy McKay from Amarillo, author of Amazon’s #1 Hot New Release, When Life Feels Like a House Fire: Transforming Your Stress . I’m excited to be a
Marcy McKay
The HPPR Radio Readers Book Club is an on-air, on-line community of readers exploring themes of interest to those who live and work on the High Plains. The 2021 Spring Read – Culture in a Common Land will begin mid-January with Amarillo’s Marcy McKay leading a discussion of the first book
The Poisonwood Bible. Marcy is a life coach as well as an award-winning novelist. She loves writing AND helping others and lists several things she wants us to know about herself. First, she’s survived both a house fire and raising two teenagers. She met her husband on the bus to summer camp when they were 14. She’s learned that her biggest struggles became her greatest strengths. Her recently released