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Pod Crashing episode 327 with Alex Fumero from the podcast
On this season of More
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https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-more-than-a-movie-101826784/
This comedic tale follows our leading lady, Christina “Tina” Acqualina Bontempi, who is living the ordinary life in the suburbs - Hoboken, New Jersey to be specific - when she discovers a mysterious book. Like a modern Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz” (minus the ruby slippers), she is swept off to a wild journey of self-discovery and friendship far from home. As Tina navigates the twists and turns of her quest to find her real parents, she engages in a final contest that’s as unique as it is entertaining – a combination of a body-builder pose-off and a poetry slam.
The author drew inspiration for the novel - which combines elements of self-help fads with humor and fantasy - from a weightlifting manual a friend gave her at the gym. Ruth based a short story for her MFA program around the concept and later turned it into what would become this book: The Bulgarian Training Manual.
Sacrifice... Because we all want to be somewhere and working all the time isn't the answer. To be in a moment. To be activated and compassionate in the way of offering no judgement. It's so hard in a world that's been designed to polarize the physical act of receiving.
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Episode 137 Mother’ Day Weekend,
“If you want to get away with murder, do it on an Indian reservation”so writes debut author, K,A, Corbell in her YA thriller, LOOKING FOR SMOKE, a sensitive look at the historic issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.
The Indigenous communities of the US and Canada face a prevailing issue in Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, or #MMIWG2S. The numbers speak for themselves: 84 percent of Native women have experienced violence and 56 percent have experienced sexual violence. The murder rate of Native women is three times more than that of white women, and in some locations the rate is more than ten times the national average. While Native women, girls, and two-spirit people are drastically more likely to be killed or go missing than any other group, these tragedies have typically not received the necessary attention from news media, law enforcement, or wider society. With deft talent and a fresh voice, K.A. Cobell carefully folds this epidemic into a fast-paced story of grief and secrecy, in a high-stakes whodunnit.
When local teen Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren’s missing sister, Mara thinks she’ll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation. Instead, a girl from the Giveaway, Samantha White Tail, turns up murdered. The last four people to see Samantha alive—Mara, Loren, Brody, and Eli—become the persons of interest in the investigation, and every one of them has a complicated history with the victim and each other. To clear their names, they’ll have to take matters into their own hands—and find the murderer among them.
LOOKING FOR SMOKE will shine a light on not only this timely issue, but on the strength and hope of the Native communities affected by it.
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