Amanda and Jenn discuss books set in Chicago, love-to-hate-them protagonists, magical realism, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Coyotes of Carthage by Steven Wright (rec’d by John)

Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose (rec’d by Amanda)

What is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi and Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (rec’d by JB)

Books Discussed

Chicago by Alaa Al-Aswany

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (tw: domestic abuse)

Serena Singh Flips The Script by Sonya Lalli (cw: domestic violence)

The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso (tw racism)

The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani (cw: war crimes)

Fairest by Meredith Talusan 

The Magical Language of Others by E.J. Koh (cw: domestic violence, self-harm, violence against women)

What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

Small Change by Roan Parrish (cw: discussion of depression and self-harm)

The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward (tw: suicide)

Dakota Blues by Lynn M Speer

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