About this episode

This episode features two stories that explore unusual family dynamics, including a mother-daughter bond that transcends death and the relationship between a grandparent and grandchild.

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two works with unusual family dynamics. In Zadie Smith’s “Grand Union,” the mother-daughter bond transcends death and brings with it a whole family history. The reader is Kaneza Schaal. And Richard Bausch’s “What Feels Like the World,” read by James Naughton, explores the bond between a grandparent and a grandchild.

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