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 Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Part 2)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Part 1)
We Should All Be Millionaires by Rachel Rodgers
Spare by Prince Harry
ReLIT: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
ReLIT: The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
ReLIT: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
ReLIT: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
ReLIT: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Part 2)
ReLIT: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Part 1)
ReLIT: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
ReLIT: His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
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Season Finale: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
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A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Good Girl, Bad Blood: The Sequel to A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow (Part 2)
The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow (Part 1)
WILD CARD: Fences, a Play by August WIlson
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