As Beyoncé said, "This is for the 30-somethings that didn't turn out exactly how mom and dad wanted you to be." Convenience Store Woman is the deadpan tale of one woman's happy life in a simple occupation before conformity-obsessed friends, family members, and strangers pressure her into confusion and despair.
Our headstrong heroine must rely on happenstance and privilege to complete her fiendish mission and remain the queen bee of her hive. The messy meddler: Nancy Drew.
AN EXTRA SPECIAL EPISODE: Acclaimed author Liz Moore joins us – US?! – to discuss her book, Long Bright River.
“You can have too much choice in this world. And when everyone has too much choice, it is also much harder to get chosen. And we all want to be chosen.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club
This week’s theme: How to Deal with Hostile People. The book on which our theme’s based: It is the first published science fiction novel written by a black woman, the story of a 26-year-old writer...
Circa 1890, somewhere in the southeast of present-day Nigeria, a powerful man has built his life on the foundations of pride and fearlessness. Determined to be the exact opposite of his lazy father, he rules...
The theme this week: Gossip. One death leads to another in this case involving two influential families in one small town. Word on the curb is that a few people could be the murderer, and...
In the mountains surrounding Acapulco, there exists a town full of women. Only women. And being a woman is a deadly mistake here.
She's witnessed something that propels her into a series of events, forever changing her life and the lives of everyone she knows.
Too black or not too black. That is the question.
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