Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them.

I'm your host Tracy Thomas.

It is the Stacks Book Club day here and we are talking about The Giver by Lois Lowry with my mom, Sue Thomas.

The Giver is a book aimed at children that examines a utopian society that is based on the idea of sameness.

We talk today about collective memory,

teaching young people about atrocities and history,

and why we think this book works so well

for both children and adults.

There are a lot of spoilers on today's episode.

Make sure that you listen to the end of today's episode to hear the Stacks Book Club pick

for June.

Just a reminder, everything we discuss on today's show can be found in the link in the show notes.

Okay, let's talk with my mom about The Giver by Lois Lowry.

All right, everybody. I am back again today with my mom, Sue Thomas. We are discussing

the giver by Lois Lowry. There are going to be a lot of spoilers today.

So if you have not read the book yet,

I would recommend pausing and coming back

after you read it.

Or you could just be okay with getting spoiled,

and that's fine too,

but we're gonna talk about the whole book in detail spoiled and that's fine too but we're going to talk about the whole

book in detail so that's your warning mom welcome back thank you I'm so glad to be

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