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From WBEZ Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson and this is the Nerd at Book Club.

It's just like a regular book club except you don't have to share your snacks.

This month's selection is Sabrina Imblers Sparkling S.A. collection called How Far The Light Reaches.

This is normally when I would give a spoiler warning but this is non-fiction so if you like it's

not quite necessary in this instance but if you haven't read the book and you want to read the

book before you hear this discussion you should do that. You could also listen to a discussion

with Sabrina which is already in the feed they are phenomenal so go listen to that.

If you are here and ready to listen along with us we are very glad to have you. I can't wait to

introduce you to this month's panelists. We have Kat Chao, she's a former NPR reporter and

the author of the memoir Seeing Ghosts. Kat hello. Hi thank you for having me on very excited to

talk about this book. We also have Rachel E. Gross, she's a science journalist and the author of

the book of Agina Obscura, Rachel hello. Hi I'm psyched to be with you today. Psyched to have you.

Okay so full disclosure both of you blurbed the book you were coming from very

positive and biased points of view which is totally cool we kind of love that. Absolutely.

Yes so I'm really excited to have both of you because I think this book is such a fascinating

combination of both science journalism and memoir with both which both of you have you know

varying degrees of experience with and Rachel especially since you are a science journalist I

would love to start with you and know what stood out to you especially when it comes to the structure

of this book because it really is super unique. Yeah absolutely I mean so yeah there's like a

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