Is This a Good Book?

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"There is a layer ofu here, and you can't drag into that," says the author. "The way that this is written up like this, this could be its own, like, it's onlyt etting prompt,. ok? This is this basely that like mister penumbra's 24 hour book store book." The novel was published by Simon & Schuster last year.

Sandra Cisneros' first novel is a collection of rapid-fire vignettes about childhood and friendship and race and America. We also check in with the darker side of our recurring guest host, the Iowa Writers Workshop.

Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

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