Welcome back to the Book Riot Podcast recording on Thursday, A28, 2020. Coming to

book Riot.com, I'm Jeff O'Neill. I'm here with Rebecca Shinsky.

And we're going to start out with a whole bunch of follow-up of various kinds.

But before we do that, a little scheduling note.

So we're doing the regular news shows throughout the summer weekly.

We will not have bonus episode, the midweek episodes for the next couple weeks,

but we will have one coming out June

24th so you've got a few weeks to get there on well Rebecca is going to be

leading the discussion of our next it book of 2020 why don't you tell us

what it is?

Yeah, so the Book Riot insiders voted on our next sort of book club

club selection and it is the vanishing half which is the new novel by Britt Bennett author of The Mothers which was out several years ago

the vanishing half comes out I believe next week by the time you're listening to this it will be coming out like tomorrow on Tuesday the second. So you'll have several weeks if you want to pick it up or you know

grab the ebook and to read and then I will be discussing it with Vanessa and Sharifah both of whom you've heard on the show before,

for that show that releases on the 24th.

So really looking forward to that.

So check that out, go find it. The mothers is great.

Oh yeah.

Let's see where we're going to do follow-up.

Some of this is just to let people know if they hadn't heard some that we actually can talk about a little bit but the first one comes and

Nicola pinged us we did see this button I'll give her credit for making sure she got to see us where

that Alaska school board in Matanuska Sositina,

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