Nerdette Book Club: ‘Jonathan Abernathy You are Kind,’ discussed!
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Greta Johnsen
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🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Nerdette Book Club is off to an excellent start with our first selection of 2024, ‘Jonathan Abernathy You are Kind’ by Molly McGhee! It’s a deeply strange novel that dabbles in dreamscapes while also being a very real critique of capitalism.
Our readers this month are Maya Lau, the host of the personal finance podcast ‘Other Peoples’ Pockets’ and Nick Quah, podcast critic for ‘Vulture.’
We do get into spoilers in the conversation! If you’re not ready to find out what happens yet, listen to our spoiler-free conversation with author Molly McGhee in the feed first.
And in case you want to read ahead, we have the next three months of books chosen! Here they are:
February: Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
March: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
April: Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
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| 0:17.0 | From W.B.E.C. Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson, and this is The Nerd at Book Club. |
| 0:25.7 | It's just like a regular book club, except you don't have to share your snacks. |
| 0:30.1 | This month's book is Molly McGee's very strange debut novel, Jonathan Abernathy, you are kind. |
| 0:36.4 | It is about Jonathan, a young white guy who takes on a super weird job entering and editing |
| 0:41.8 | the dreams of middle class workers because it's part of a federal |
| 0:45.0 | debt relief program. |
| 0:46.6 | That is all I'm going to say for now. |
| 0:48.4 | If you have not read the book and you don't want to know what happens, go back and listen |
| 0:51.8 | to our author interview, which is spoiler free and it is in the feed. |
| 0:55.2 | If you have read the book or you don't care and you just want to know what's going down, |
| 0:59.5 | welcome. We are glad to have you. I'm very excited to introduce you to this month's guests. |
| 1:04.8 | With us we have Maya Lao the host of the personal finance podcast other people's pockets. |
| 1:09.5 | Maya welcome to the show. |
| 1:11.1 | Thank you thanks for having me. Also here is Nick Quois a |
| 1:14.4 | podcast critic for Vulture. Nick welcome back. I'm sorry I was promised snacks. |
| 1:18.8 | Well no it's a BIO snack situation, my friend. |
| 1:23.0 | Well, I'm going to be very hungry for the next five of it though. |
| 1:25.0 | Oh, okay, well, we'll make it work. |
| 1:27.0 | I think we should just start this off with a voicemail. |
| 1:30.0 | Here is Katrina in Chicago. |
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