Ep. 124 Finding Your Future Self with Liara Tamani
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Young Adult author Liara Tamani is our guest today, and we discuss her newest book All the Things We Never Knew. Liara shares how she came to write for young people, the ways she finds authenticity in her characters, why social media isn’t for her, and the ways school curriculum doesn’t always serve students.
Tune in on August 26th when we discuss Sula by Toni Morrison for The Stacks Book Club with Brit Bennett.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas. |
| 0:09.0 | Today I'm talking with Leera Tamani. |
| 0:11.0 | Leira is the author behind Calling My Name and her latest book, All the Things |
| 0:16.0 | We Never Knew. |
| 0:17.4 | We talk today about how Leara became a writer for young adults, the ways education has been letting our young people down, and a film |
| 0:25.0 | we both love, love and basketball. Remember everything we discuss on today's |
| 0:29.9 | episode can be found in the link in the show notes. |
| 0:33.2 | Before we get to the episode, I just wanted to thank the Stax Pack on Patreon. |
| 0:37.2 | Those are folks who have contributed a small amount each month that goes a long way to making |
| 0:41.4 | this show possible. |
| 0:42.8 | For their generosity, they earn perks |
| 0:44.4 | like our monthly virtual book club |
| 0:45.8 | and shoutouts on the show. |
| 0:48.1 | And of course, my eternal gratitude. |
| 0:51.1 | If you want to join the Stax Pack, please head over to Patreon.com slash the Stax. |
| 0:56.8 | Okay, this week I'm giving a special thanks to Carly Cruceshell, Sophie Turp, Jenny Klein, Emma, Sandra Nunez Sims, Lindsay, Sophia, Olivia, Beatrice Chehen, |
| 1:09.5 | MK, Haley Smith, and Jessica Mamoli. Thank you all so so much. Okay now it's time for my |
| 1:16.7 | conversation with Leera Tamani. All right everybody I'm so excited. I'm here today with Leera Tamani. She is the author of all the things we never knew. It is a YA book about, it's kind of like a YA romance, but also in the true sense of YA, it's a finding |
| 1:37.4 | yourself, who am I, who do I want to be kind of story? |
| 1:41.5 | Leera, welcome to the Stacks. |
| 1:43.2 | Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here. |
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