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Hello everybody. How are you? Welcome to the program. This is The Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy here in Los Angeles. It's nice to be with you. Thank you for listening. I hope you're doing okay. Wherever you happen to be, I have a great episode for you. Don't forget to subscribe to this podcast wherever you listen. You can also subscribe

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like to support the show, you can do that at patreon.com slash other ppl pod. Today I am going to be

in conversation with author Tanya James.

Her new novel out this week on Knappf is called Lute.

It's basically an omniscient narrator who's intruding on the story from time to time.

That is not objective. And it's kind of like me reminding you that

I'm in the room here with you. And I'm not neutral about this history. And I have some opinions.

And I found that really fun. I'd never done that in a novel before in a story. I think that was a large part of the fun for me.

Okay, that was Tanya James.

Her new novel is called Lute, out this week from Knappf.

Lute is a work of historical fiction set in 18th century, India, England, and France.

It is about a very gifted young man in India who is a remarkable woodcarver.

His name is Abbas.

He comes from a humble background,

and his work happens to come to the attention of Tipu Sultan,

the ruler of the kingdom of Mysore in

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