This week we're taking it back to our very first episode, featuring a book that's drowning in controversy.
As a kid, did you ever fantasize about running away from home? Ever dream about escaping to a place where no one could tell you what to do? Imagine for a moment that your fantasy came true but in reverse. Your parents ran away from home, leaving you to your own devices before you could even count to 30 — before you literally knew what number came after 29. It’s an age where you reasonably expect no one will ever leave you without food, guidance, and protection, and yet there you are, without the natural affection afforded to even the feral animals around your feet. Sobering, no?
Owens writes the world of Kay, our protagonist, with striking vividness. Through economical prose and an unpretentious vocabulary, she brings to life the colors and sounds experienced by a six-year-old girl, abandoned by her own in the marsh of North Carolina in the 1950s. While reading this book, the air around you will smell of buzzing micro-ecosystems and land wet with forgotten waters from the Pacific Ocean. More than anything, you’ll feel the numbing pain of Kay’s loneliness as if it’s your own.
Before we dive into Where the Crawdads Sing, we’ll get real about loneliness and depression: What battles have we had with both, and how does one cope?
Welcome to the first episode of Lit Society. Let’s get LIT
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles
Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem by Daniel R. Day
Black Card: A Novel by Chris L. Terry
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Remembering Laughter by Wallace Stegner
The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Part 2)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Part 1)
BONUS! Hamilton the Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Project Girl by Janet McDonald
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi
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