Megan Abbott

So dealing with, uh,

um a real a real small town of the like twin peaks variety let's just say interesting okay you didn't struggle at all with that that was really good just saying our listeners are not having the cathartic experience that i had promised them i'm sorry i'm very sorry this is the final question i ask of everyone on the show can you recommend us a book it can be a book you're excited to read but haven't read yet it can be a book you just finished and you just want to tell everyone about it it can be a book you're still reading it can be a book you read a million years ago but like recommend us a book because we're all about uplifting writers

Yes, I recommend a book that just came out last week, which is Patrick Radden Keefe's London Falling, which if you like true crime, he's the best there is.

He wrote Say Nothing.

He's just a... And the book about the Sacklers that became the TV show.

And Say Nothing became a TV show, too.

He's a New Yorker writer.

Wait, Sacklers, it's the Purdue Pharma?

That's right.

So...

He's brilliant in every way.

And this book is based on one of his articles about this young man in London who fell or was pushed off a balcony of this upper middle class, you know, upper middle class kid.

And he gets in it.

You would not believe how wild the story is and how moving it is because he's

He talks to the family extensively as they try to figure out what happened to their son.

And to say any more would spoil it.

But if you're looking for it, can't put it down.

You cannot put it down.

It reads like a thriller, but with huge heart and meaning and political resonances.

It's everything you want.