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original astronauts. As their husbands became heroes, these wives rocketed to start them. The

Astronaut Wives Club premieres Thursday, June 18th on ABC. Hello, and welcome to the audio

book club for June 2015. I'm Katie Waldman, Slate's Words Correspondent, and I'm joined today by Hannah

Rosen, a writer and editor for Slate in the Atlantic, and a double X podcaster. Hi, Hannah.

Hi, I'm so many things. How are you? You are. I'm good. And Emily Bazelon, a staff writer

at the New York Times Magazine and one of the hosts of the

Political Gab Fest. Hey, Emily. Hey, I'm glad I also get to have multiple identities. But you have

the best title, Katie, the words correspond to. Exactly. I didn't realize it was officially

the words correspondent. That's so cool. It is. And I trotted out every chance I get. And today,

I'm in New York for a change. And Hannah, you're in D.C. and Emily, you're in New Haven. So our conversation is born aloft and made possible by invisible waves wafting up and down the East Coast. And I mention that because today we're discussing all the light we cannot see the Pulitzer Prize

winning novel by Anthony Doer, which is preoccupied with transmission and reception and

connections between disparate things that may or may not be apparent to the naked eye.

So I can't wait to hear what you guys thought of the book, but first, maybe we should give

a basic summary of what happens.

Good luck to you with that.

Also, as usual, we will be spoiling the crap out of this book.

So if you don't want to know what happens, perhaps go read the book and then come back, and we will be here with open arms.

Great. So all the light we cannot see interweaves the stories of two children living in Europe during World War II and the years leading up to it.

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