I think she's like stylistically on the line level as one of our like most beautiful voices in writing.

Hello and welcome to happy to be here, the show for recovering perfectionists and the

perpetually curious about what to read, eat, watch, think about and delight in wherever you

may happen to be. I'm your host, Greta Johnson, and delight in wherever you may happen to be.

I'm your host, Greta Johnson, and I am so excited that you are here.

Today is the discussion episode for the May Book Club pick, which means we will be discussing would-be in all of its spoilery glory.

My guest today is author Kristen Arnett, who wrote,

Stop Me if you've heard this one, with teeth and mostly dead things. Full disclosure, Kristen Arnett, who wrote, stop me if you've heard this one with teeth and

mostly dead things. Full disclosure, Kristen also blurbed Whitby. Kristen, welcome. Hi. Thank you

for having me. I love Whitby. So a genuine pleasure to talk about to Kira and this book.

Before we jump in, I would like to do two quick warnings. One is a trigger warning

about child sexual abuse. We're not going to be talking about it super graphically, but that is a

prevalent theme in this book. So this conversation may not be for you. Also, I would like to do a

spoiler warning. There is a spoiler-free conversation with author T. Kirimadden in the feed,

which means if you have not read Wouldby and you don't want to know what happens, that is the place to go.

A quick plot synopsis, that is the place to go. If you have read Wouldby or you do want to know

what happens, I'm glad to have you here. Here's a quick

plot refresher for you. In many ways, the central character of this book is Calvin, but this

story is told through the perspectives of three women who knew him, his mother, Mary Beth,

and Bertie and Lindsay, two women who were sexually abused by him when they were girls.

For Bertie, the incident is a defining moment in her life. Even though her court case against him was dismissed, she cannot get

past what happened. Meanwhile, Lindsay has gone in a totally different direction with her grief.

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