Ep. 36 If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim — The Stacks Book Club (Aja Gabel)

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Arts, Society & Culture, Books, Literature

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Author Aja Gabel is back for The Stacks Book Club conversation this week. We're discussing If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim. The book follows one woman, Haemi Lee, her life and relationships during and in the years following the Korean War. Our conversation covers what it means to survive, feminism, war stories, and more. There are spoilers this week, but if you want to get to know If You Leave Me better without spoilers, listen to our first episode of The Short Stacks feature Crystal Hana Kim.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to another episode of The Stacks. I'm your host Tracy Thomas. This week is the Stacks Book Club and we're discussing the beautiful and devastating new novel if you leave me by Crystal Hana Kim. Our guest this week is author Asia Gable.
0:23.0	In case you missed our announcement last week, we have launched our short stack episodes.
0:28.0	They come out every other Monday and they feature a short conversation with an author about their writing and their book.
0:34.4	This past Monday we had Crystal Hanna Kim, who's the author of If You Leave Me, so you should definitely
0:39.2	check it out.
0:40.6	In order to keep creating new content like many episodes, we rely on the help of listeners like you.
0:45.0	One of the best ways to help the show is to go to Patreon.com slash the Stacks and become a member of the Stacks Pack.
0:51.0	You decide on a monthly amount to contribute and
0:54.0	earn perks like our virtual book club asking questions of our guests and shout-outs on
0:59.0	the show. This week I want to give some love to our newest member of the Stax Pack, Michelle Clark.
1:04.8	To join the Stax Pack and earn these cool perks and more, go to Patreon.com slash the Stax.
1:11.0	And if a monthly subscription isn't really your thing, you can do one-time donations at
1:14.9	PayPal.me slash the StaxPod. The last thing I want to remind you about is subscribing to the show
1:20.5	wherever you listen to podcasts and also taking a moment to rate the show
1:24.8	and write a review. These really help the show get to more listeners and book lovers so
1:29.4	please take a moment I swear it's super duper easy and we really really appreciate it now it's time for our conversation with author Asia Gable about the book if you leave me
1:39.0	We do have spoilers this week so listen at your own risk but since this past Monday we did do a
1:45.6	mini episode with Crystal Hanna Kim the author of if you leave me there's no
1:49.6	spoilers there so you could go listen and enjoy that and then come back to this longer
1:54.0	episode when you read the book everyone wins. Okay that's it let's dive in
1:59.2	in the conversation between myself and Asia Gable.
2:10.8	Welcome back everybody. We're here again today with author Asia Gable and for the Stax Book Club we're talking about if you leave me by Crystal Hanukim.
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