Ep 305 - The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henríquez

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

We didn’t plan to discuss Cristina Henríquez’s The Book of Unknown Americans during a particularly fraught period in the United States’ immigration debate. But if this book or our discussion can help anyone develop more empathy for those who come to the US from elsewhere, it will have done its job (or one of its jobs, anyway).

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0:00.0	This is a head gum 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	Hey everybody, welcome to Overdoot.
0:43.6	It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.
0:46.0	My name is Craig.
0:47.0	My name is Andrew.
0:48.2	And we're coming down off our live show Hi.
0:51.6	We're up here still a little high, I think, off of the energy and the crack.
0:58.2	We're coming down and we're just coming down for a soft landing.
1:03.2	We invite you to join us in this soft landing that we call life.
1:08.7	Yeah.
1:09.7	Yesterday we did our live show on Brian Jake's Red Ball and a bunch of people came out
1:14.7	and we hung out with a bunch of people after and it went well.
1:18.1	We had a good time.
1:19.1	It's going to go up on the feet in the next week or two.
1:22.3	Correct a mundo.
1:23.8	But I'm really like, I've just been curled in a ball playing my Nintendo Switch for the
1:29.8	last 12 hours because that's just like, I expended on my extrovert energy on you people.
1:38.3	Well, so thanks to everybody who came out and to folks who were able to stick around
1:46.4	if you were able but didn't really want to because that's not your jam.
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