Every author has a story beyond the one that they put down on paper. The Barnes & Noble Podcast goes between the lines with today’s most interesting writers, exploring what inspires them, what confounds them, and what they were thinking when they wrote the books we’re talking about.

Members of the “Code Black” cast surprise MGH at her ‘The Grove’ book signing in L.A.!

In an excerpt from her new book, The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family and Flowers, actress Marcia Gay Harden writes about her mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease, and the struggles, lessons and unexpected gifts it brought them both.

Marcia Gay Harden with her mother, Beverly, in 1991.

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