Megha Majumdar

That's right.

Yeah, it's a big part of the book, her experience in prison.

I really loved this.

memoir recently by a writer called Marcelo Castillo called Children of the Land.

And it was a memoir about the author's father who was deported from the U.S.

and sent to Mexico and 10 years later tried to come back.

And it's this incredibly complex,

intricate, yet beautifully poetic book about the real cost of immigration rules and immigration barriers.

So that's a really beautiful book that comes to mind.

Last year, I loved this book called The Need by Helen Phillips, which I thought was an incredibly ambitious original novel, which was

Starting from this spooky place where a woman one night, who is a mother, she feels that there is an intruder in the house.

And then from there, it unfolds and becomes this really spiky, sharp meditation on motherhood and a mother's wishes and fears and how they might be twinned.

I thought that was a beautiful book.

I am reading, I just started reading this novel called On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee.

It's a novel that I think came out several years ago, and I have heard people speak really rapturously of it.

So I've been meaning to read it for a while, but it's set in a near-future Baltimore town.

where there's a fish tank diver who leaves this contained world and sets out to find her partner who has disappeared.

I think it's a meditation, I think, on climate change in some ways.

Thank you so much for having me.

This was such a pleasure.