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Oh, I'm sorry. That's my old job. A good, good day, bookcasers, or good evening, depending on when you're listening. I'm Charlie Gibson. Kate, do you think people will

mind being called bookcasers? Oh, I hope not. I hope we have a loyal army that's willing to

call themselves bookcasers. I think that's

terrific. So I'm really excited about today's show because, well, I get really excited about all of

our shows, but this is one of those writers that for me was a revelation, although she probably

shouldn't have been. Julie Otsuka has written three books, three beautiful books. When the Emperor was

Divine, Buddha in the attic and the swimmers, which is her most recent, which is the first one that I

picked up. Mitchell Kaplan recommended her, who's our friend who runs books and books in Florida.

I read it in, I think, one night. And I think I may even have sent you a picture of the cover

of the book in the middle of the night saying, read this, read this, read this, read this. After I read

it, I ran out and I got her other two books and I read them. Her prose is very spare. And I think you

were checking just today, Kate, I think each of her books is under 200 pages. And when you read her

books, it's almost, she writes in a very idiosyncratic way. It's almost like she's making

lists. And I'm going to give you an example in a minute, and she'll give you an example when we

talk to her. But it could be poetry. I mean, each sentence is so distinct and so spare,

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