Welcome to Zero to Well Read, a podcast about everything you need to know about the books you wish you'd read.

I'm Jeff O'Neill.

And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.

In this episode, we're going back to the future with a Nobel Prize winner, Kazuo Ishiguro's dystopian novel, Never Let Me Go, which turns 20 this year.

Has an age of today, Rebecca. It hasn't.

Not to spoil it, has an age of the day.

It holds up better than almost anything you could pick up that was 10, 20, 30, even more years than that old.

It reads, it's so present, it's so relevant.

It's hard to imagine a moment in the world where this would not feel relevant and relatable, even as the technology that we'll get into and maybe the specific moral questions that Ishi Guru explores, change and evolve.

The heart of this book is, I think, timeless.

And that's one of the many reasons we're talking about it in

this inaugural season of Zero to Well Red. This episode of Zero to Well Red, and our first season

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