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It's Top Ten Tuesday! Which Author Comes in at #5 on the Book Club Girl on Air Countdown?

I'm counting down our Top 10 Book Club Girl on Air shows every Tuesday this summer. These are the shows that have gotten the most live listens and subsequent downloads since they first aired!

We started it off at #10 with Mary Kay Andrews' show on which we discussed Deep Dish and then Thrity Umrigar came in at #9 for her show on The Space Between Us. Clocking in at #8 was Adriana Trigiani for her show on Very Valentine and at #7 was Debra Dean discussing The Madonnas of Leningrad. Last week we announced the 6th most popular show featuring Elizabeth Noble discussing Things I Want My Daughters to Know. Each week readers can give the show a listen and post a comment and they are entered to win that week's discussed book (US and Canadian entrants only please). To that end, I'm pleased to announce that the winner of Things I Want My Daughters to Know, The Reading Group and a totebag is Melissa C! Thanks for entering and congratulations!

So which author's show comes in at #5 on the countdown? It's an author who has published two successful paperback originals with Harper Perennial - Jessica Anya Blau who joined us to discuss her second novel, Drinking Closer to Home! Listen in to the show now and leave a comment about something you learned or liked from the show and you'll be entered to win a copy of Drinking Closer to Home as well as Jessica's first book, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, plus a totebag in which you can take them both to the beach!

Listen in to the show now and leave a comment about what you've learned or liked from it to be entered to win (US and Canada residents only) (I'll pick one random winner from all comments posted by midnight, Friday August 5th), and be sure to check out Jessica Anya Blau's website. Jessica is also one of the authors in attendance at the Club Read weekend getaway for book clubs this October in Virginia - check out that site and perhaps you can meet her, and many others, there! 

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Book Club Girl on Air Welcomes Thrity Umrigar to Discuss The Weight of Heaven!

I'm thrilled to announce that national bestselling author Thrity Umrigar will be returning to Book Club Girl on Air on Tuesday, February 23rd at 7 pm ET to discuss her new novel in paperback, The Weight of Heaven. For those of you who are fans of Umrigar's The Space Between Us, and who might have participated in her Book Club Girl on Air show about that book, you know what a coup this is.

In The Weight of Heaven, Umrigar tells the story of Frank and Ellie Benton, whose lives are shattered after the loss of their only child, seven-year-old Benny to a sudden illness. Filled with wrenching memories, their Ann Arbor home becomes unbearable, and their marriage founders. Then an unexpected job half a world away in Girbaug, India, offers them an opportunity to start again. But Frank's befriending of Ramesh—a bright, curious boy who quickly becomes the focus of his attentions—will lead the grieving man down an ever-darkening path with stark repercussions.

A devastating look at cultural clashes and divides, Thrity Umrigar's The Weight of Heavenis a rare glimpse of a family and a country struggling under pressures beyond their control.

Browse inside the book, check out the reading group guide and Thrity's website, and set your reminder for the show on the 23rd here. The first 10 people who comment that they'd like to participate in the show will receive a copy of The Weight of Heaven to read before the show!