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It’s Valentine’s Day! To mark the occasion, Big Books and Bold Ideas is dipping into the archives to focus on love — and not just romantic love. This show highlights love of all kinds: familial love, love between friends, even the love of books. 

Leif Enger, who joined host Kerri Miller in Red Wing last June

 to talk about his novel, “I Cheerfully Refuse.” Enger’s latest book is dystopian in nature, but at its heart, it’s a love story. 

Miller’s conversation with British-Nigerian author Ore Agbaje-Williams

, whose subversive and wickedly funny novel, "The Three of Us,” delves into love between friends. Is it possible our friendships are more foundational than the bonds we form with romantic partners? 

Jedidiah Jenkins and his memoir, “Mother, Nature.

” It recounts a five-thousand-mile road trip he and his mother took to retrace the route his parents traversed in the 1970s as they walked across America. It sounds sentimental. But it’s really Jedidiah’s attempt to reconcile two conflicting truths: that his mother loves him completely and that she does not accept that he’s gay.

If you want to hear the complete conversation from any of today’s authors, click the links above or look for the episodes in your favorite podcast. 

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