This week we're taking it back to our very first episode, featuring a book that's drowning in controversy.
As a kid, did you ever fantasize about running away from home? Ever dream about escaping to a place where no one could tell you what to do? Imagine for a moment that your fantasy came true but in reverse. Your parents ran away from home, leaving you to your own devices before you could even count to 30 — before you literally knew what number came after 29. It’s an age where you reasonably expect no one will ever leave you without food, guidance, and protection, and yet there you are, without the natural affection afforded to even the feral animals around your feet. Sobering, no?
Owens writes the world of Kay, our protagonist, with striking vividness. Through economical prose and an unpretentious vocabulary, she brings to life the colors and sounds experienced by a six-year-old girl, abandoned by her own in the marsh of North Carolina in the 1950s. While reading this book, the air around you will smell of buzzing micro-ecosystems and land wet with forgotten waters from the Pacific Ocean. More than anything, you’ll feel the numbing pain of Kay’s loneliness as if it’s your own.
Before we dive into Where the Crawdads Sing, we’ll get real about loneliness and depression: What battles have we had with both, and how does one cope?
Welcome to the first episode of Lit Society. Let’s get LIT
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Becoming by Michelle Obama
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (Part 2)
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (Part 1)
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, by Susan Jeffers
Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White
Such a Fun Age, by Kiley Reid
Sula, by Toni Morrison
Bonus: The Chat We Couldn't Fit Into Our Last Episode, Catch And Kill by Ronan Farrow
Catch and Kill, by Ronan Farrow
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
My Sister the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Educated, by Tara Westover
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