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Overdue

Ep 513 - Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi

Overdue

Headgum

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

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Yaa Gyasi's debut novel tracks the lasting impacts of the slave trade across multiple generations and continents, through the eyes of two half-sisters and their descendants. 

Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

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Transcript

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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.

0:41.6

Hey everybody, welcome to Overdoots a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.

0:45.2

My name is Craig.

0:46.2

My name is Andrew.

0:47.2

Bringing that media training energy to this podcast.

0:50.2

Wait, when did you get media training?

0:51.6

I'm a media training.

0:53.1

I downloaded it into my brain last night.

0:56.6

I woke up and I said, whoa, whoa, I've got media training.

1:00.0

Okay.

1:01.0

It's interesting.

1:02.0

I know you were getting media training.

1:03.2

This is my first attempt to put it to use.

1:05.8

Can't you tell?

1:07.7

You sound the same except where we've been talking about media training a lot more.

1:12.5

That's all I know about media training.

1:14.9

You have to talk about it.

1:19.1

We're also going to talk about books on this year book podcast where one of us reads a book

1:23.7

that we haven't read before and tells the other person about it.

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