Featured on KRCB’s A Novel Idea, two novelists whose books hit big this year.

Fierce Kingdom is a thriller of a book by Gin Phillips, which takes place over the course of three hours in a zoo that is under attack by gunmen, and where a woman and her young son are trapped; ultimately this is a story of motherhood.

Rachel Khong’s novel Goodbye, Vitamin defies literary convention in its wit and lightness to bring us into the inner life of a 30 year old woman who has just been dumped by her boyfriend and is visiting her family, where her father has Alzheimer’s.