Anna and Amanda discuss the William Dean Howells Medal, awarded to Richard Powers for The Overstory.

Our book of the week is The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness by Kyung-sook Shin translated by Ha-yun Jung.  A coming-of-age story of a factory girl in Seoul in the 1970s, this shows a different side of the rapid development of South Korea. Cited in Korea as one of the most important literary novels of the decade.  

Coming up: our isolation reading recommendations.

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