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Ep 119 - Across a Hundred Mountains, by Reyna Grande

Overdue

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

What would you do for a better life? Where would you go? Who would you leave behind? And what does "better" mean, anyway?

Reyna Grande poses these questions with great poise and power in her debut novel, Across a Hundred Mountains. This week, we talk border crossings, panda bears, Chicana feminism, and the ingenuity of Days of Our Lives.

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0:00.0

While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,

0:05.1

they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.

0:10.4

Plus, these are books you should have read by now.

0:30.7

I don't think it's going to impact this recording. I don't think it will.

0:47.6

Kids in my neighborhood love fireworks. This is my new neighborhood. We spared everyone the

0:54.8

whole moving discussions over the past couple of weeks because we did that already.

0:58.3

You move. That's the story. Whatever. But the kids in this neighborhood love fireworks. Welcome

1:05.6

to Overdo. This is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read. My name is Craig.

1:09.0

My name is Andrew. And I drew. My name is fireworks.

1:15.7

They're not so much about the shoot it up in the sky and make a pretty flower in the air.

1:27.2

They're all about the ones that you can hold in your hand, light them and then throw them at your

1:33.7

friends. They make fireworks. They're supposed to be used that way or do they just use them that way?

1:40.4

Well, you may have hit the nail on the head there. Yeah. It's like I was going to say maybe it's

1:47.5

closer to the 4th of July and people just have fireworks fever and it's a really dangerous fever

1:55.1

to get. After a certain amount of time you do explode. Yeah, tell me, check back with me in December

2:02.0

and if they're still throwing fireworks at each other, then maybe the kids in your neighborhood

2:06.5

have a fireworks problem. That's true. I mean, I'm a little concerned that school is just getting

2:11.6

out and already there's been like fireworks fights. So I don't know what's going to happen now

2:20.0

that no one has to go to school. Can you find the people who lived in your apartment before you

2:25.0

and ask them why they left and determine if the reasons are fireworks related?

2:30.4

No, I don't think so because no one lived here for about like two or three months.

2:38.0

So I assume that those people are just now ghosts. They just don't exist. I don't know why they

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