For this installment of the KTCO Book Club, writer and podcaster Maggie Tokuda-Hall joins us to discuss Susanna Clark’s 2020 novel Piranesi. A relatively slim volume, Piranesi is surprisingly difficult to summarize but, like its labyrinthine setting, with patience and attention the book will reveal its profound beauty and kindness. (Conversation recorded February 24, 2022.) Subscribe:

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Show Notes:

• Maggie Tokuda-Hall
• Failure to Adapt
• Purchase Piranesi: Mrs. Dalloway’s (Berkeley, CA) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
• Purchase Also an Octopus: Mrs. Dalloway’s (Berkeley, CA) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
• Purchase The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea: Mrs. Dalloway’s (Berkeley, CA) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
• Purchase Squad: Mrs. Dalloway’s (Berkeley, CA) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
• Purchase Love in the Library: Mrs. Dalloway’s (Berkeley, CA) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
• Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
• Jon Klassen
• Mac Barnett
• Carson Ellis
• Mac Barnett & Carson Ellis - What Is Love?
• M. T. Anderson - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing
• Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun
• Normal Gossip
• Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Friday Black

Transcript Episode Credits

• Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
• Music: Podington Bear
• Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo