CZM Rewind: CZM Book Club: "The Orchard of Tomorrow" by Kelsea Yu
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4.7 • 902 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Margaret reads you a story about what enormous love it will take to rebuild the world and take back what's ours from the powerful.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.9 | Cool zone media. |
| 0:10.2 | Book club, book club, book club. |
| 0:13.6 | It's the Cool Zone Media Book Club. |
| 0:17.5 | That's our new intro. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm totally going to get it exactly the same from now on. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm very good at consistently making up to these. |
| 0:25.6 | Welcome to the Cool Zone Media Book Club. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and every Sunday I read you a story. |
| 0:31.7 | It's like a book club, only you don't have to do the reading, because I do it for you. |
| 0:37.3 | And we read fiction. And sometimes we read stories that are like the perfect story for Cool Zone Media Book Club. Sometimes we read stories like the one today. Today is an example of one of the perfect stories in case that didn't come across. Because today, I'm going to read you a story called |
| 0:54.7 | The Orchard of Tomorrow by Kelsey You. Who's Kelsey You? Well, I'll read you her bio. |
| 1:03.5 | Kelsey Yu is a Taiwanese, Chinese, American writer who is eternally enthusiastic about sharks |
| 1:08.3 | and appreciates a good ghost story. Over a dozen of her short stories and essays appear in Clark's World, Apex, Nightmare, |
| 1:14.9 | Fantasy, Pseud, and elsewhere. |
| 1:17.7 | Her debut novella, Bound Feet, was a Shirley Jackson Award nominee, and her next novella, |
| 1:22.6 | Demon Song, will be published by Titan Books in 2025. |
| 1:27.0 | Kelsey's first novel, It's Only a Game, is published by Titan Books in 2025. Kelsey's first novel, |
| 1:28.3 | It's Only a Game, is published by Bloomsbury. |
| 1:31.5 | Find her on Instagram and Twitter at |
| 1:33.6 | A Novel Escape, |
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