Extended Families

Selected Shorts | Feb 9, 2018
Guest host Jane Curtin presents two stories featuring unconventional families.    A young girl is raised by a group of warm-hearted “Big Mamas” in Shay Youngblood’s touching coming of age story, “They Tell Me, Now I Know,” read by Viola Davis.   In Jai Chakrabarti’s “A Small Sacrifice for An Enormous Happiness,” forbidden love affair and a marriage of convenience promise two different futures.  The reader is Bhavesh Patel. 

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