Ep 470 - The Tiger's Wife, by Téa Obreht
Overdue
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4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Téa Obreht's award-winning debut novel is about a doctor in a war-torn Balkan country, piecing together her grandfather's life one story at a time. Is it a magical realism? Is it mostly about animals? Is it surprisingly resonant with our Current Societal Moment™? Find out the answers to these questions and more on this week's episode.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told |
| 0:10.5 | tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:16.3 | Plus these are books you should have read by now. |
| 0:42.7 | Hey everybody, welcome to Overdoot's podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. |
| 0:46.7 | My name is Craig. |
| 0:47.7 | My name's Andrew. |
| 0:49.7 | Really hitting that shwan into my voice this week. |
| 0:52.6 | Not sure why, but I fell off a cliff chasing the road runner apparently. |
| 0:59.8 | I want to fell on one of those acne black holes that they sell. |
| 1:03.9 | I thought I was running into a rock with a tunnel painted on it, but then I ran into |
| 1:10.7 | the actual tunnel and now I'm in an alternate dimension. |
| 1:13.7 | Did you have, we're going to talk about the Tigers wife by Teo Brick or Aubreyx, excuse |
| 1:18.6 | me in a second. |
| 1:20.2 | Do you have acne growing up? |
| 1:22.7 | The grocery store? |
| 1:23.7 | Oh no, no, no. |
| 1:24.7 | We were in Ohio, so we had Myr, we had Kroger, those are the big boys. |
| 1:29.0 | So Walmart's Super Center started being a thing as they sort of expanded and consumed everything. |
| 1:36.0 | Okay, yes, well that's true. |
| 1:38.0 | I don't remember if Big Bear was groceries. |
| 1:40.0 | I think maybe it was. |
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