CZM Book Club: The Clover Still Grows Wild in Wawanosh, by Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
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4.7 • 902 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Margaret reads you a lush post-apocalyptic slice of life story by an amazing poet
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Cool Zone Media. |
| 0:11.1 | Book Club. |
| 0:12.0 | Book Club. |
| 0:13.0 | Book Club. |
| 0:13.9 | Hello. |
| 0:16.0 | And welcome to Coolzone Media Book Club. |
| 0:17.7 | The only book club where you don't have to do the reading because I do it for you. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and today I have a story for you. I suppose I have a story |
| 0:27.7 | for you every week, but this week, I have a story for you. It is luscious. It is delicate. It is |
| 0:34.3 | complicated. And it doesn't quite have a plot, but Hazel and I both agree |
| 0:42.0 | that it's honestly better for it in this particular story. Do you trust us? Do you trust us for |
| 0:48.5 | a story like that? Please trust us on this one. This story, from a longtime collaborator of mine, someone who |
| 0:55.7 | have worked with on projects here and there throughout the years because she's such an |
| 1:00.7 | incredible writer. Kelly Rose Flugback, who was a writer and editor living in so-called Canada. |
| 1:07.4 | This story is also set in Canada, in and around a community near Wawinosh, which I looked up trying to find out how to pronounce and listen to approximately eight different pronunciations, and all of them were produced by a machine, and I don't trust that pronunciation. So Wawinosh, it is. It's about three hours west of Toronto on Lake Huron. It appeared originally |
| 1:31.9 | in Strange Horizons magazine in 2013. It's a real quote-unquote classic book club story in that it is a |
| 1:40.3 | story about climate and governance and sadness, But it's so much more subtle and haunting |
| 1:45.7 | than just saying it like that. It's a really good story. Do you trust us? Please trust us on this one. |
| 1:51.1 | It is a great story for the false spring. Probably about half of you are experiencing what I'm |
| 1:56.0 | experiencing, which is the false spring after the coldest winter in five to 20 years, depending on where you |
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