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The Welcome to spirits, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.

Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.

I'm Amanda.

And I'm Julia.

And we are so excited. Rarely have I read a book, y'all in the park that garnered more comments than I did

while reading our guest today, author Kala Kendall. Kala, welcome to the show. Hi, Aloha. I'm Kala.

We are so excited to have you. And and particularly we are really excited that we get to

talk to you before that which feeds us comes out. If you're listening to this on the day that the

episode comes out, it just came out yesterday so you can go and buy it right now, right away.

You're going to want to, I promise. Absolutely, you're going to. So, Cal, before we get started,

can you tell our audience a little bit about who you are and what you do besides writing

the incredible that which feeds us? Hi, well, I'm Calla Kendall, and I'm an author who, from

Hawaii, I was born in Honolulu and raised on Molokai. And today I'm joining you as part of the native Hawaiian diaspora in Los Angeles.

And my work, including my new novel, That Which Feeds us is kind of my way of going home as I live in diaspora.

That Which Feesis is a Hawaiian gothic.

It's about the true cost of paradise.

It's a story that follows a young Hawaiian woman who goes home for the

first time to find her missing sister who has disappeared from a exclusive, ultra exclusive,

let's be clear, wellness resort on a private island. And while there, she has to uncover

the island's history to find out what happened to her. Oh, gosh. And, you know, I think we've said it so many times on this podcast already.

We are such big fans of the Gothic genre as a whole. So anytime I see any sort of iteration

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