Okay, welcome to the other people show, a weekly podcast. I am Brad Listy, and I'm in Los Angeles.

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Instagram. I'm going to be talking with Claire Jia today about her debut novel entitled

Wanting. It is available now from Tin House and it is the official July

pick of the Other People book club. That is my book club. If you want to join the book club,

you can do that at other ppl.com, get a new book delivered to your door every 30 days. I interview

book club authors on this program. So wanting is a debut.

It is a novel about female friendship and desire and thwarted expectations and capitalism and

America and China and cultural divides and financial divides and generational divides and youth and

adulthood and coming of age and romance among other things I had a great time meeting

Claire Gia and talking with her about her life, her work in a film and television,

and this debut novel of hers. Again, it is called Wanting, available from Tin House.

That conversation is coming up in just a moment.

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