You are 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 Omera.

And I'm Bria Grant, actress filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode, we're talking about book quirks and interviewing Mike Chen.

But first...

What are you reading, Brio?

I just started this book called The Water Cure by Sophie McIntosh.

I've seen that at a bunch of bookstores.

It's been like it was like on the buzzy book.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Although I think it came out last year and maybe it just came out in America I'm pretty sure it came out recently

I'm looking at the originally published date and it says 2018 which surprised me oh no

Maybe in America. came out 2019.

I don't know why it says 2018.

Anyway, it is, I just started it,

so I can't tell you, but it's a really eerily written

apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic sort of feminist book where there's three

sisters and their mother, a woman who I assume is their mother, I don't, yeah I think

they call her mother, yeah she's their mother it's all about how

they're vulnerable to men and they're living someplace where men can't get to and I

haven't figured out why or how yet I don't and I don't and women And women keep showing up on the shore of this place.

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