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I'm author filmmaker and book devour Mallory O'Mara and I'm Bria Grant actress filmmaker E-reader.

This episode we're talking about where you read and interviewing author Cameron Hurley.

But first what are you reading Bria?

I am reading The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner.

Rachel Kushner had a book a couple of years ago called The Flamethrows

that everyone really liked.

This one, yeah, this one is about a, it's fiction, but it sort of goes through the story.

This is like a lot of women's stories from inside a prison.

So a specific prison and it kind of talks through other like it's about one specific woman

but then it sort of touches on all these other women's stories.

If you like Orange is the new black,

I would say you would love this book,

but it's a thousand times darker.

It's very dark.

Triple one is the new black.

Yeah, truly is.

Sadness is the new black is what it should be called

uh... fucked upness is the new black

trigger warnings for everything please check that before you start reading this book

it is about you know it's about women who are living in poverty who get in this cycle

of poverty and cycle of abuse and they end up in prison and then they end up in

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