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University and Hunter College. She currently lives in San Francisco. So welcome, Mung. Thanks so

for coming on Moms and have time to read books. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited

to discuss Little Gads, which was beautifully written. Like from the very first page, I just

was drawn in immediately by your writing style and the things you were telling and the way that you told it. So I'm delighted to get to talk to you about it. Thank you so much for reading the book at all. And also for those kind words. Oh, we were just talking about covers. I also happened to love your book cover. Not that you judge a book by its cover, but it's a pretty awesome cover. Do you love the cover as well? Yeah, I was so thrilled when I saw it. So just to describe when I'm talking about Little Gods, how do I even describe it? This is like a red with a little dark purple and some scattered gold dots. So go Google it or something, but when you're buying it, you can see the title. Anyways, Little Gods, it's a great cover.

So very captivating and very reflective of sort of the interest that the book will take you away with as you read it.

Yeah, one of my friends said that the dots invoked mathematics, which I could kind of see, and I like thinking about that.

Interesting.

Yeah.

I like it. So, first of all, I like thinking about that. Interesting. Yeah. I like it.

So, first of all, tell us what Little Gods is about.

Yeah.

So Little Gods is a story about migrations.

Migrations through time, place, and class.

And it is centered around a Chinese woman physicist named Sulan. She's, this is not a spoiler because it

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