Ep 163 - Disgruntled, by Asali Solomon

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Disgruntled, Asali Solomon’s debut novel, is simultaneously ambitious and accessible. It’s a coming-of-age novel that grapples with questions of race, identity, and family, all heavy topics. But it’s always clear and direct and it’s often funny, and Solomon has a gift for making complicated feelings easy to understand.

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	So he talked about this a little bit earlier, but I think my favorite thing about house
0:45.0	hunting, having only been doing it for like two days, is the narrative, the rich narratives
0:52.2	that you like come up with for the people who aren't there.
0:55.3	Yes.
0:56.3	Like for the houses that are still furnished anyway.
0:58.4	Yes.
0:59.4	I think I can't overdo this a podcast about the books that you've been meeting to read.
1:01.6	My name is Craig.
1:02.6	My name is Andrew.
1:03.8	And it's different when you're like coming into a house.
1:07.5	It's empty or into a room.
1:09.5	Or even like an apartment, which I feel like usually when you're coming into a apartment,
1:13.9	like it's empty or there's the person is more explicitly moving out.
1:18.4	And they didn't like since they were just renting, maybe they didn't feel comfortable making
1:22.2	it fully their own anyway.
1:23.7	But then you come into some of these houses where people just went nuts and put and stuff
1:28.7	up on the walls and coming up with crazy furniture arrangements.
1:33.0	Uh huh.
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