You're listening to reading glasses a show about book culture and literary life

designed to help you read better. I'm author, filmmaker, and book devour

Mallory O'Mara and I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker and E-Rader.

This episode we're taking off the pre-orders box from the Reading Glasses Challenge and talking to

literary agent Dong Wan Song.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

I just finished a comic that I thought was really interesting called

PRISM Stalker by I read the first trade PRISM stocker by Sloane Leung. So the book is basically

about a young girl who is living on a planet

and she gets recruited to go to this new planet to sort of explore the the weirdness of this new planet and the things on this new planet and

they recruit people and basically throw them to the wolves the metaphorical wolves

there's no real wolves but there are aliens there's so many aliens so many

and it's interesting because it touches a lot about displaced people she was

already a displaced person a refugee from another planet she had been

separated from her family for various reasons, and so then she

gets further pushed away.

So it's sort of about her dealing with her identity of identifying with this specific planet, and then she meets people from that same

area I don't know if they're from that same planet and like how they don't exactly

accept her anyway it's just a really fascinating book it deals a lot with stuff like that and then also it's just a really fascinating book. It deals a lot with stuff like that.

And then also, it's like being in a crazy acid trip.

The book is like these bright pinkish blues

with these beautiful huge landscapes of like melting mountains and these

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