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Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Wangs vs. the World, You Can’t Touch My Hair, Ghostland, and more books. This show has been sponsored by A Change of Heart by Sonali Dev, The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict and ThirdLove. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: The News of the World by Paulette Jiles The Wangs vs The World by Jade Chang Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey I’ll Tell You in Person: Essays by Chloe Caldwell You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson The Ramblers by Aidan Donnelly Rowley Brief Histories of Everyday Objects by Andy Warner Geek Love by Katherine Dunn What we’re reading: Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album by Ken Caillat The Mothers by Brit Bennett We Show What We Have Learned and Other Stories by Clare Beams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This episode is sponsored by A Change of Heart by Sonale Dev.

0:04.0

Delving beyond the surface of modern Indian American life, a change of heart by Sonale Dev,

0:08.0

the highly acclaimed author of a Bollywood affair and the Bollywood bride,

0:12.0

both of which are Book Riot household favorites,

0:14.0

is an extraordinary story of secrets, danger, and Bollywood glamour.

0:18.0

Dr. Nick Joshi had it all until, while working for Doctors Without Borders in a Mumbai slum, his wife Jen discovered a black market organ

0:25.8

transplant ring.

0:27.2

Before she could expose the truth, Jen was killed.

0:29.8

Two years after the tragedy, Nick is a cruise ship doctor who spends his days treating sea sickness and

0:34.4

sunburn and his nights in a boosy haze.

0:37.3

On one of those blurry evenings on deck, Nick meets a woman who makes a startling claim.

0:41.8

She received Jen's heart in a transplant

0:43.9

and has a message for him.

0:46.1

A change of heart by Sonale Dev

0:47.8

is available now wherever books are sold,

0:50.0

and more info is available at Sonale Dev.

0:52.4

com, that's S-O-N-A-L-I-N-A-N-I-N. And more info is available at Sonale Dev dot com.

0:53.0

That's S-O-N-A-I-D-E-V.com. You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and

1:13.7

this is episode 74 and today we are talking about books released on

1:17.6

October 4th 2016 and more. I'm Liberty Hardy here with my fellow

1:22.3

podcast Rebecca Shinsky and we're coming to you from

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Book Riot.com. Hello hello hello there. On the day that we are recording this on

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