After last month’s crowd-pleasers, Bobby and Pandora sink their teeth into two very different, equally meaty books. In Augustown by Kei Miller, a “dismal little valley” in Jamaica becomes a boiling pot of tension when a young boy’s dreadlocks are cut off. And in Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin, the boiling pots are a little more literal – and Pandora shares an all-timer of a kitchen horror story.
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Books/articles mentioned:
Augustown by Kei Miller
Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
The Pisces and Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà
Good Material and Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
The Bread The Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Midnight Chicken by Ella Risbridger
Takeaway by Angela Hui
PRE-ORDER SMALL HOURS by Bobby Palmer
Augustown by Kei Miller Review by Natasha Tripney for The Observer
“Augustown”: A Novel of the Sacred and the Profane in Jamaica by Laura Miller for The New Yorker
Scalding oil, racist prank calls and endless ‘lid duty’: growing up in a Chinese restaurant by Angela Hui for The Guardian
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Books for episode 10:
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume
Sound by Joel Grove and production by Pandora Sykes
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