We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia feat. Erin Callahan

Published: Feb. 21, 2019, 4 p.m.

b'Love, lies, and revolution! All of that and more in this week\\u2019s featured title, We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia, with guest Erin Callahan. (Transcript) In today\\u2019s episode\\u2026 We Set the Dark on Fire provides a dark vision of the island world of Medio where a wall separates the prosperous inner region from the salted, barren earth of the outer island. Every young man of wealth and means negotiates for two wives \\u2013 a Primera, who is to be his ambitious, intellectual equal, and a Segunda, who will be the lovely and beautiful opposite of everything he is. Daniela has trained as a Primera in Medio, and is set to marry an influential politician\\u2019s son. When a rebel organization discovers her biggest secret, she must agree to be a spy in [\\u2026]'