Shannon Sanders

We have a return guest to the podcast today.

Shannon Sanders is back with her debut novel, The Great Wherever.

It's a generational family saga about a 30-something woman living in DC who suddenly learns she has a stake in a century-old family farm.

In this story of inheritance, Shannon was also able to explore the different lives lived through the generations, especially for women, and what they legally can or cannot do with their bodies.

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The Great Wherever by Shannon Sanders is a generational saga centering Aubrey Lam, the millennial daughter of two deceased parents, who learns she's inherited a stake in a century-old family farm.

This inheritance takes her to Tennessee to learn about the land, lineage, and legacy from the other tenants in this unique common, while the reader learns about the ghosts who are tethered to both the farm and its descendant caretakers.

Make sure you check it out, and let me know what you think in the comments.

I'll holler at y'all next week, when our guest will be Shannon Sanders, author of the novel The Great Wherever.

I'm a lover of ghost stories, and there tends to be some sort of a network of rules about, like, where ghosts can be and what they can do and how much influence they can have over the living world, and I just kind of decided I was gonna make up the rules for this book.

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But before we do that, we will hear from a fellow book lover about one of their five-star reads.

I'm Molly Page, or Molly PG on socials, and my five-star read is The Great Wherever by Shannon Sanders.

I found Sanders' debut novel to be a delightful read, in part because I was immediately drawn to its impulsive protagonist, Aubrey.

When we meet her, Aubrey's made some questionable financial choices.

Lindsay's found that having other moms to chat with through all of life's small and big moments has been really important to her, and she's enjoyed using books to spark these conversations.

Shannon also lives in Alabama, and in a prior life ran the Rocket City Mom virtual book club for 10 years, where they read over 60 books together.

So when she saw Lindsay's submission, she knew she had ideas.

Today, we will see what types of books we can put on Lindsay's reading radar that might make for great conversations with either one of her book clubs.

Readers, I really enjoyed this.

Let's get to it.

Lindsay, Shannon, welcome to the show.

Thanks, Ann.