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Book club.

Book club.

Hello.

And welcome to the Cool Zone Media Book Club.

The only book club where you don't have to do the reading because I do it for you.

And this week, we have a tour the force from an author, artist, and musician named Alex Smith.

It's called Girls Who Look Through Glass. And it's from Alex's phenomenal 2022 collection,

Arkdust from Rosarium Publishing.

There's so much in this story to be excited about. It has incredibly niche radical cultural references.

It has a main character who brandishes a box cutter as her blade of choice.

It has white people being extra white. It has divine metaphors for the

experience of grief or of being newly called into radical movements or I don't actually

totally know what the metaphor is exactly about. It's up to you because that's the beauty of

reading and it's what makes this story so good. So let's get into it. Girls who look through

glass by Alex Smith. Packs of artisanal biscuits stacked in several rows shrink-wrapped and dusty.

Rows of organic pickled sauerkraut and reclaimed mason jars. She wields her box

cutter over these items like a samurai with her sword, ripping through splintered cardboard boxes,

down the aisles decorated with rows of burlap sacks filled with bacon-infused, gluten-free syraccia bars, and oatcakes

and cellophane bags adorned with pictures of old white men on horses. She slits the top of a package

with one precise gentle glide, ignoring the picture of a knife with a ghostbuster slashed through it, her blade

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