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This is zero to well read, a podcast about the books you've always wanted to read. Maybe you've

read and want to hear someone else talk about. Maybe you don't want to read them and just want to know what they're about and hear some folks talk about them. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. Today, we're discussing Amy Tan's groundbreaking novel about mothers and daughters in Chinese American culture, The Joy Luck Club. Before we jump in, though, you can click the link in our

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book riot.com. I recently got a very nice email from someone talking about the name Ebenezer

and what it means in the Bible and how to appear there. Fascinating. All right. And I would like to say to that person, thank you.

And I also like to say that I think Dickens used that name just because it sounds like someone who would be a bad guy. I don't think it has much to do with actual biblical Ebenezer, though it's interesting. I think just Ebenezer Scrooge sounds like one of the great skin flints of all time. So there you go, but always willing in interest here.

Got a couple of requests to submit requests. the great skin flints of all time. So there you go, but always willing in interest here.

Got a couple of requests to submit requests for things we're going to cover. We need some

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