Two novels chronicle the mysterious disappearances of young women

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🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Today's episode centers around two books that explore the rippling consequences of violence against women. First, author Johanne Lykke Holm sits down with NPR's Scott Simon to discuss her new novel, Strega, which follows a group of teenage girls sent to work at an odd hotel – it's a place focused more on reinforcing gendered roles and behavior than welcoming guests. Then, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Crime Junkie host Ashley Flowers about her fiction debut, All Good People Here, which tracks the eerie cases of missing young women in a small Indiana town.

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1:13.9	Okay, let's get to today's pod.
1:19.9	Today on the pod, we've got two books offering their vastly different takes on a very popular scenario.
1:21.9	A girl has gone missing.
1:26.9	In a bit, we'll hear from Ashley Flowers, hosts of the popular True Crime Podcast Crime Junkie.
1:28.7	She's out with her debut novel.
1:33.8	But first, Johande Liki Holmes' new novel, Straga, is a little bit more lyrical, a little more conceptual. It's a Swedish novel that just got translated into English, and it's funny, she says
1:38.8	in this interview with NPR Scott Simon that readers have told her that they see it as this
1:43.5	feminist book about female
1:45.2	friendship.
1:46.1	But what she was actually writing about is violence and complicity.
1:50.2	In the U.S., national security news can feel far away from daily life.
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