Things Fall Apart: Parts 2 and 3

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

As we come to the end of China Achebe’s novel, we’re discussing whether it ends in a satisfying fashion, contemplating the POV shift in the final chapter, and thinking about the complex role of both the Church and the civil authorities that infiltrate the villages as the story comes to an end.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:04.0	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.6	I'm Tim McIntosh.
0:07.3	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:09.2	And this is Closer Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader.
0:12.7	Nailed It.
0:13.1	On which we are discussing, thanks, Sean.
0:15.3	Shinawa Shabies, things fall apart.
0:17.3	We're going to discuss the parts two and three, the second half of the book.
0:21.3	I guess really it's like the second, the last third of the book, really, because the first
0:27.4	part is kind of the first two-thirds of the book. I don't know. Don't check my math on that,
0:31.5	but roughly. We're all back together again. It's great to be together here in December.
0:36.5	It just makes me feel like all is right in the
0:39.5	world. I know. The Christmas miracle. So we're going to do this episode. Then it is a Christmas
0:46.1	miracle. Then it's our Q&A episode. And we're going to probably, we're going to post this episode
0:51.2	that you're listening to. Then we're going to post the thread. Then we're going to let some questions
0:53.9	come in. The day we would normally run that is Christmas to. Then we're going to post the thread. Then we're going to let some questions come in.
0:54.7	The day we would normally run that is Christmas Day.
0:57.4	So we're going to record it at a different time than Christmas Day.
1:01.7	But it's going to go up sometime Christmas week.
1:04.1	In the meantime, we also have a Casablanca episode up
1:11.2	that Heidi and Sean and I did
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