Words Matter Library: Verify by Joelle Charbonneau

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week we put Verify by bestselling author Joelle Charbonneau into the Words Matter Library. This eerily timely, high-stakes page-turner is destined to start important conversations at this particular moment in our history. Meri Beckley lives in a world without lies. When she looks at the peaceful Chicago streets, she feels pride in the era of unprecedented hope and prosperity over which the governor presides. But when Meri’s mother is killed, Meri suddenly has questions that no one else seems to be asking. And when she tries to uncover her mother’s state of mind in her last weeks, she finds herself drawn into a secret world with a history she didn’t know existed. Suddenly, Meri is faced with a choice between accepting the “truth” or embracing a world the government doesn’t want anyone to see—a world where words have the power to change the course of a country and where the wrong ones can get Meri killed. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:12.1	This is the Words Matter Library.
0:18.2	Our guest today is a classically trained musician with a master's in opera performance.
0:23.8	She's also a New York Times bestselling author.
0:26.8	Her latest book is Verify.
0:28.9	Joe Elsharbernau.
0:29.9	Welcome to Words Matter.
0:30.9	Thanks so much for having me.
0:31.9	I'm Flattered.
0:32.9	Verify is the first fiction book that we are adding to the Words Matter Library.
0:38.5	So thank you very much for your time and thank you for sharing it with us.
0:41.5	And I'm a fan of yours and a follower of yours on Twitter.
0:44.8	And while most of our books in our subjects are generally geared towards journalists and
0:49.9	policy makers, people in the world of finance law makers, regulators and all those influencers,
0:55.4	you write for a slightly younger audience.
0:58.4	Talk a little bit about that.
0:59.4	I do write for a slightly younger audience.
1:02.0	Verify is technically a young adult book.
1:04.7	Although I think that there is a lot of young adult books that are read by anybody from
1:09.3	10 to 90.
1:11.4	It's an unusual category that pulls a lot of readers in.
1:16.0	And it's a category that you will find a lot of the most political fiction that is being
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