Ep 315 - Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

If you want to relive the 2008 financial crisis, this is the book for you! Behold the Dreamers is the story of the crash through the eyes of immigrants who work for bankers, but Imbolo Mbue resists making any individual character into a hero or villain. That might not always be satisfying, but it makes for a more nuanced story.

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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	Hey everybody, while I'm going to overdo it's a podcast about the books you've been
0:44.4	reigning to read.
0:45.5	My name is Craig.
0:46.6	My name is Andrew.
0:48.5	That's our opening.
0:49.5	Let's start the show.
0:50.5	I don't have any clever to say.
0:55.2	Well no, we just recorded it in a whole nother podcast.
0:57.8	I feel like all my conversational juice has been drup-sypped.
1:02.2	Oh.
1:03.2	It's gone.
1:04.2	So every week one of us reads a book that we've never read before and tells the other person
1:08.5	about it.
1:09.5	This week I read, behold the dreamers by Imboleau Mbueh.
1:13.7	Craig was this a Patreon book?
1:15.0	It was.
1:16.0	Thank you Nasha for supporting us on patreon.com slash overdue pod.
1:20.6	Yeah.
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