Nerdette Book Club: Tania James on ‘Loot’
Nerdette
WBEZ
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Talent that hasn't been seen ever before. |
| 0:03.0 | She had the talent. |
| 0:04.0 | It was evident that she had major talent. |
| 0:08.0 | I already knew this guy was talented and hilarious, |
| 0:10.0 | but that's like another wing of the Smithsonian inside of him. |
| 0:17.0 | The greatest talent in history dissected. |
| 0:20.0 | Hear the origin stories of iconic figures on making |
| 0:23.0 | from WBEZ Chicago. |
| 0:25.0 | Listen wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | From WBEZ Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:36.0 | And this is the Nerdet Book Club. |
| 0:38.0 | It's just like a regular book club, |
| 0:40.0 | except sometimes the author stops by. |
| 0:42.0 | This month's book is Tonya James' historical novel, |
| 0:45.0 | Loot. |
| 0:46.0 | The story opens in Mysore, India in the late 1700s, |
| 0:49.0 | where a young woodcarver named Abbas is summoned |
| 0:52.0 | to the Sultans Palace to help make a mechanical tiger. |
| 0:56.0 | The novel spans continents and decades, |
| 0:58.0 | but that tiger is at the center of the story. |
| 1:01.0 | And here to tell us more about her book is Tonya James, |
| 1:04.0 | the books author. |
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