Top Shelf at the Merrick Library

Top Shelf at the Merrick Library


Episode 103: Interview with Bobby Finger debut author of The Old Place

September 19, 2022

The Old Place by Bobby Finger is a bighearted, moving debut about a wry, retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens to come to light and send shock waves through her small Texas town and I loved every page. Emma Straub says, “I loved being…in the heads of some wonderfully tangy old Texan ladies.”


For this episode, we talk about places in our lives: new places and the old places. The people that stay and the people that go. This book is chock full of the choices that people make, the secrets they keep, and how and these characters try to live with those decisions. The Old Place is book club gold, so don’t miss this incredible conversation with Bobby Finger. Thank you so much Bobby!


Bobby Finger recommends: Perish by LaToya Washington; The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty.


Follow Bobby Finger on Instagram & Twitter: @bobbyfinger and listen to his podcast, Who? Weekly right here.


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