S02:E10 | Little Reviews: Books About Fallout (feat. Joy Williams, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Nona Fernández, and Virginia Woolf)

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It's Little Reviews time, and today we're talking about fallout: the space of personal crises in post-crucible societies. I've got four books on the docket, all of them book club picks:

• Harrow by Joy Williams, an ABC pick for June
• How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, an ABC pick for July
• Space Invaders by Nona Fernández (trans. Natasha Wimmer), an ABC pick for June
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, an original ABC pick from January, which we revisited in March

A NOTE ON CONTENT & SPOILERS
I highly encourage you to look into content warnings for every book I discuss before you pick it up; we want reading to be safe for everyone. <3
I refuse to spoil plot, but I do talk about what you can glean from the book jacket, authorial and narrative choices, formal elements, and my overall impressions and takeaways. If you're wary of getting spoiled on *anything,* then maybe bookmark this episode and come back when you've read the books herein.
Take care, keep creating, and stay divine!
Resources

• S02:E03 | Little Reviews: Books About the Aftermath | Referenced in this episode's discussion of Space Invaders, in re: the quality of "haze" in writing
• The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, and Mona by Pola Oloixarac | Referenced in this episode's discussion of Harrow
• Hades, Argentina by Daniel Loedel, The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch, and Salt Houses by Hala Alyan | Referenced in this episode's discussion of Space Invaders
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin, or the graphic novel A History of Violence by John Wagner and Vince Locke, and Terminator (film) | Referenced in this episode's discussion of Mrs. Dalloway

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