Rereading Deenie by Judy Blume, with Alex Poppe

Writer Alex Poppe joins us to talk about Deenie, Judy Blume’s 1973 novel about a girl, pigeonholed as the pretty one in her family, whose life is thrown off track when she’s diagnosed with scoliosis. Alex is the author most recently of the memoir Breakfast Wine. Other books by Judy Blume: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great Forever Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing Then Again, Maybe I Won’t It’s Not the End of the ...