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

I'm your host, Danica Ellis.

This is episode number 429.5 and today I'm going to tell you about a couple of Backlist

books that really surprised me and of course they are both sapphic.

I am Canadian and that means that working for an American company, I am often confused

about what days I have off and what days everyone else has off and I have to keep a little

note to make sure that I don't mix them up.

So I didn't realize I had Labor Day off, Labor Day with a U, of course, until only a few

days beforehand.

So I am recording this at a strange time and I feel totally off my game and I'm hoping

that the dogs aren't in a bark and that there isn't going to be loud yard work happening

outside but I can't guarantee either of those.

So I'm just going to stumble through this and we'll do our best but I do have two books

that I am really excited to talk about and it's an interesting topic because both of

these sapphic books did something that I wasn't expecting but of course in order to talk

about them I kind of need to spoil them a little bit.

I'm not going to spoil them in a lot of detail but I'm going to try my best not to actually

spoil them but it is pretty hard to avoid if that's the topic that you are discussing.

So I'm going to let you know both of them up at the top of the episode in case you don't

want any information at all and you can go in and be maybe surprised like I was.

So the two books that I'm going to talk about, one is The Very Nice Box by Laura Blackett

and Eve Glishman which is a sort of literary fiction book with a bisexual man character

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