So Many Damn Books

219: Rachel Lyon's FRUIT OF THE DEAD & Tessa Hadley's THE PAST

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Episode notes

Rachel Lyon returns to talk about her new novel, Fruit of the Dead, and how it wasn’t always a Persephone myth retelling, she found that along the way. Plus, we get into the “generative fill” of reading, and I pontificate on dust mote fiction, inspired by the fetid summer heat within the pages of Tessa Hadley’s The Past. Read along!

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