Hello and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we Unbind books to get to their hearts with your host me, Raylene, and me. It's Arielene. Woohoo. So today is a little bit different.

We have a very fun show for you as always.

But before we dive in, we actually have our very first sponsor.

This is an emotional moment for us. This is really exciting.

This is all I've ever wanted as a podcast is to be able to be sponsored because it's like,

now I've made it.

We're legit now.

And today's episode is brought to you by the Last Goldfish by Anita Lehi, which is a book, obviously.

I love it.

You can tell it's our first one.

This is a book.

Yes, that's true.

It is a book, and it is an exciting sounding book, and it is a book that honestly sounds

perfect for you and me

and for our audience, which is why they reached out to us.

So let me tell you what the book is about.

When Anita Lahie opens her binder in grade nine French and gasps over an unsigned

form, the girl with the burst of red hair in front of her whispers, forge it. Thus begins an intense,

joyful friendship, one of those powerful bonds forged in youth that shapes a person's identity

and changes the course of a life. Anita and Louisa, love those names, navigate the wilds

of 1980 suburban adolescence against the backdrop of dramatic

world events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall. They make Carpe Diem, their manifesto, and

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