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 Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
ReLIT: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
ReLIT: Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A Pure Heart: A Novel by Rajia Hassib
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke
”Wilde” Card: The Importance of Being Earnest, a Play by Oscar Wilde
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Part 2)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Part 1)
Invisible Girl: A Novel by Lisa Jewell
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Wild Card: Movie Review — (2022) Death on the Nile
ReLIT: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
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