You are listening to reading glasses a show about book culture and literary life

designed to help you read better I'm author filmmaker and book devour

Mallory Omera and I'm Briae Grant actress filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode we're talking about books about the immigrant experience and interviewing writer

Tope Philarin.

But first, what are you reading, Bruh?

I read a book that was very buzzing last year. I think you've already read it. It's called The Hunger by

Alma Katsu. Oh, God, yeah. It's like Spooky Donner Party. Yeah, like spooky Donner. That's exactly what it is. It's like, um, I just finished it. It is very scary. I mean, scary and more like creepy, but then it gets scary.

But basically it, um, is a reimagining of the Donner Party.

That's the story of the people who went in,

or going to California and they ended up freezing to death

and eating each other.

That's the Donner Prize story.

It's that bummer thing that happens

when you're trying to go to California.

Yeah, but this is sort of a horror Western reimagining of it

that instead there's like sort of a demony curse that is

loose among the Donner party that is spreading from person to person that makes you crave flesh and kind of go crazy.

That's kind of, I don't think I'm giving way too much by saying that.

It's great, it's kind of a nice slow Western.

It follows like, you know, six or seven people's stories.

I don't know if it's quite that many,

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