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All the Books!

All the Backlist! March 22, 2019

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jenn discusses a few great older books, including Made in India by Meera Sodha. This episode is sponsored by Mem by Bethany Morrow. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Made in India by Meera Sodha Chemistry by Weike Wang (tw: family violence) On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor Pegasus by Robin McKinley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:13.0

Tesco every day. Helping you become more Christmas. Oh, oh, oh, Tesca, every little helps.

0:16.0

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0:18.8

Wush Club Cutrap required.

0:20.3

You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

0:26.0

I'm Jen Worthington, recording on March 20th, and I am filling in for Liberty Hardy, who unfortunately

0:31.2

has the plague, feel better liberty.

0:34.7

Today I'm going to be talking about a few great backlist titles that are recent finds for

0:39.2

me, but before I get into that I want to tell you about today's sponsor, which is also a backlist title that I happen to love.

0:46.5

It is Meme by Bethany Morrow.

0:49.0

It is set in Jazz Age Montreal in an underground vault that imprisons living memories.

0:56.1

Known as MEMS, these physical clones of other people are doomed to experience a single memory

1:01.6

over and over again. Lacking thoughts of their own, the mems then expire inside of the vault.

1:07.0

All except for 19-year-old Mem Dolores, Extract Number One, who has shocked the world with her ability to make her own memories.

1:17.0

With the help of a doctor who created her, Dolores is released from captivity and establishes an independent life until she is suddenly

1:24.5

summoned back to the vault.

1:26.8

She has to search for answers and confront the ultimate truth.

1:30.3

Is she human or not?

1:32.0

And her journey to that is really fascinating to watch.

1:37.0

It's such an interesting book y'all.

1:38.8

It's sort of sci-fi, sort of historical fiction and it's a really thoughtful exploration of what

1:46.4

identity means and what the process of growth is like so you definitely want to

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