ABC: Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy

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🗓️ 29 July 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Katy Waldman, Jacob Brogan, and Dan Kois discuss Maile Meloy's novel Do Not Become Alarmed. Next month's book will be The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy. The Slate Audio Book Club is brought to you by Audible. Audible has the best audiobook performances, the largest library and the most exclusive content. You’ll feel something when you listen. Learn more at Audible.com/AudioBookClub. And by Sun Basket. Sun Basket sends organic, non-GMO ingredients right to your door. So you can prepare meals in just 30 minutes or less! Choose from Paleo, Gluten-Free, Lean & Clean, and Vegetarian options. Go to SUN BASKET dot com slash ABC today and get 50% off your first order! SUN BASKET dot com slash ABC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:05.0	Hello and welcome to Slate's Audio Book Club for the month of July 2017.
0:11.0	I'm Katie Waldman, a staff writer at Slate, and I'm joined here today by the critic and host of Slate's working podcast, Jacob.
0:18.0	Hey Jacob.
0:19.0	Hello, hello.
0:20.0	And by Slate's senior editor and former Zsaar of the book review, Dan Brogan. Hey, Jacob. Hello, hello. Um, and Visclate Senior Editor and Former
0:22.6	Zarr of the book review, Dan Coice. Hi, Dan. Hey, guys. Our book today is about adventures in
0:28.7	far-flung lands, and you guys are both in far-flung lands, right? We are, yeah. Dan is farther
0:34.3	flung than I. We've been flung far? Yeah.
0:38.7	Where are you?
0:46.1	I'm in my childhood home in Oregon, and I'm looking out on rolling hills that are blanketed with wild blackberry bushes that are being picked away at by deer of all ages. And it is truly bocolic. Oh, a hummingbird just literally
1:00.4	hop past my window. I am spookily staring out at a beautiful beach in Costa Rica that is protected
1:09.8	by a reef a ways out to shore and is close to the mouth of a river.
1:14.7	So it seems perfectly safe at low tide.
1:18.0	Are your children swimming in those waters?
1:21.7	No, to keep them safe, they are on the internet.
1:25.2	That is where they should be.
1:27.4	Yeah, I hate you both.
1:29.0	And I want to quickly say that next month's book will be the Ministry of Atmost
1:33.3	Happiness by Arndottie Roy.
1:35.3	But this month, we are discussing Do Not Become Alarmed by Miley Malloy.
1:40.6	And it is thematically congruent to what Dan is talking about if you guys want to jump in and help me lay out the plot feel free.
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