S02:E03 | Little Reviews: Books About the Aftermath
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It's Little Reviews time, and today we're whipping through a whopping SIX BOOKS, all of which sit in that emotionally rich and tender space of the aftermath – specifically, the aftermath of the death of a loved one, including:
- The Furrows by Namwali Serpell
- We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
- In Love: A Memoir of Love and Lossby Amy Bloom
- Afterglow (a dog memoir)by Eileen Myles
- Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones (one of our April ABC picks!)
- The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
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
- On the unreliable narrator | S01:E04 | Little Reviews: One's Company by Ashley Hutson and The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón
IG: @littleoracles
Chapters
1. Intro: Lilacs, larkspurs, and a little, gentle disclaimers (00:00:00)
2. Little Review: The Furrows, An Elegy by Namwali Serpell (00:02:27)
3. Little Review: We Are Okay by Nina LaCour (00:05:05)
4. Little Reviews, memoir moment: In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom; Afterglow (a dog memoir) by Eileen Myles; and Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones (an April ABC pick!) (00:07:14)
5. Little Review: The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi (00:13:38)
6. Outro: Thank you for being here, share this episode, leave a rating or review, follow us on social! xo (00:16:05)
7. Secret outtake: Old cats IRL (00:16:57)
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