Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Megan Angelo, author of Followers, her first novel.

Megan is another fellow Pennsylvanian. It seems like all authors are now. From Madeline Miller, to Kiley Reid, Liz Moore, Vikram Pall-el-kar, and a bunch more. Then Ann Patchett who writes about my home town of Elkins Park. It’s wonderful.

Megan’s writing has appeared in NYT, WSJ, Glamour and Elle. Well worth going to the last two and taking a look at what she has written. Fascinating how her work mirrors, in part, the very topic that she concentrates on in Followers.

Followers is a novel that at first seems like science fiction, fantasy, alternate history or an imaginative exercise in social commentary.

But it is not that at all. It is us. It is real. It is now. It is scary and for old geezers like me, who are behind the wave now, although I pride myself on being pretty aware of what is going on, old geezers may not understand what the hell this book is about, but it is a primer that will wake them up to what the hell is going on.

After Trump and for the next 2 years I kept saying “you can’t make this stuff up”. Now I can’t say that anymore because it is so far beyond that. It is a nightmare. That’s why SNL can’t parody Trump anymore. It is beyond parody.

Anyway, I am beginning one of my rants, so before I take up anymore time, I will let Megan tell us about Orla and Floss from 2015 to 2051. A 2051 that seems too real.

Welcome Megan and thanks so much for joining us today. Sorry about going off like that in the intro.