Sarai Walker on THE CHERRY ROBBERS
\u201cI didn't want it to be just\xa0a\xa0very overwhelming dark book. I mean, it has so much tragedy that I had to balance that I wanted to make it part of, you know, light and airy and fun and frothy and feminine to contrast with what's going to happen. I think there's power in that contrast ... I felt like it can't all be this very goth\xa0all the time, this very gothic world, the kind of fog-on-the-Moors kind of thing\u2026\u201d We were utterly thrilled by Sarai Walker\u2019s debut novel,\xa0Dietland\u2014inspired in part by beauty culture and in part by Fight Club (yep, that one)\u2014and we\u2019re delighted by her newest,\xa0The Cherry Robbers. Sarai joins us on the show to talk about sisterhood, love, marriage, romance, feminism, her literary inspirations (including Emily Dickinson and Kate Atkinson\u2019s\xa0Life After Life), and much more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer. And we end the episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and his bookseller guest, Becky.
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Featured Books:
The Cherry Robbers\xa0by Sarai Walker
Dietland\xa0by Sarai Walker
Life After Life\xa0by Kate Atkinson
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Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays).
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