You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed

to help you read better.

I'm author and bookt of our Mallory O'Mara.

I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker and Fee Reader.

This episode we're finally talking about stressed out parent horror, much to Mallory's horror,

interviewing author and friend of the show, claim the cloud Chapman, and giving advice on

what to do when your book club hates your favorite book, the horror, but first Bria, what

are you reading?

Well Mallory, as you know, but people at home may not know, unless they follow me on Instagram,

I'm in Japan right now.

Yeah, you are.

A trip I've been wanting to go on for a really long time, so it's very, very exciting

for me.

And I've been reading non-stop Japanese translated books.

And this one, I texted you that.

I was like, wow, you are in your perfect place.

Perfect, perfectly.

It's perfectly wonderful.

I've read a lot of them, but I'm going to talk about what I really enjoyed called Diary

of a Void by Amy Yagi, translated by David Boyd.

It is, it came out a few years back, and just speaking about stressed out parents, it's

about a woman who she works in a workplace that is like rampant with sexual harassment

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