Our first author chat episode of "Ravenous Readers" features National Book Award winner Randy Ribay who has written the popular Young Adult novels The Patron Saint of Nothing, After the Shot Drops  and An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes . Tune is as we chat with him about books, why we should read the YA genre and how to focus on things when you feel like you just can't.

Happy listening!

For further reading and information on topics mentioned in this episode, check out:

America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan 

Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemison 

Cane by Jean Toomer 

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel 

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds 

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel