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🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | Education this week is a weekly newsletter for parents navigating schools |
0:04.4 | in Chicago and the suburbs from reporters at WBEZ and the Chicago Sun times. |
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0:19.6 | From WBEZ Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson and this is the Nerdet Book Club. |
0:24.4 | It's just like a regular book club except sometimes the author stops by. |
0:28.3 | It is March of the year 2023 and our book this month is Rebecca McKay's. |
0:33.2 | I have some questions for you. |
0:35.1 | A boarding school murder mystery with a cherry on top. |
0:38.0 | A podcast storyline. |
0:40.6 | It's about Bodie who's invited back to Granby. |
0:43.1 | The boarding school she attended to teach a class about podcasting. |
0:47.0 | When Bodie was a student, her former roommate, Thalia was murdered. |
0:50.6 | A Granby staffer, a black man, was convicted of the crime. |
0:54.2 | That's all I'm going to say for now since this is a spoiler-free conversation. |
0:58.6 | Rebecca, welcome to Nerdet. |
1:00.3 | Thank you. |
1:01.8 | So this story takes place at Granby which is a fictional boarding school in New Hampshire. |
1:06.8 | But you actually not only went to boarding school yourself, |
1:09.9 | but you also live on a boarding school campus now, right? |
1:14.2 | Yeah, well, so first of all, yeah, I was a day student at a boarding school. |
1:19.4 | But still very much in that world. |
1:21.1 | And then yeah, my husband teaches high school English, |
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