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Check This Out with Rachel Barenbaum

Rachel Barenbaum

From New Hampshire Public Radio and the PEN/ Faulkner Foundation, Check This Out is a literary series where host Rachel Barenbaum dives deeply into the works of emerging and diverse authors.

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Ep. 127 Cherry Lou Sy: LOVE CAN'T FEED YOU

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2024/12/07

A beautiful, tender, yet searing debut novel about intergenerational fractures and coming of age, following a young woman who immigrates to the United States from the Philippines and finds herself adrift between familial expectations and her own desires.

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Ep. 126 Ferdia Lennon: GLORIOUS EXPLOITS

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2024/12/01

An unlikely production of Euripides in a prison quarry, set in ancient Greece with a contemporary Irish accent. As funny as it is moving, the novel is an ode to the power of art in a time of war and brotherhood in a time of enmity.

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48:54

Ep. 125 NHPR Elizabeth Gonzalez James: THE BULLET...

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2024/11/24

Based on (mostly) true events, "The Bullet Swallower" is a magical realism western about violence and revenge, a story that asks who pays for the sins of our ancestors, and whether it is possible to be better than our forebears.

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Ep. 124 NHPR Sarah Brooks: THE CAUTIOUS TRAVELLER'S...

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2024/11/16

In this historical fantasy novel, a group of passengers set out on the Trans-Siberian Express train, in a journey across a magical landscape known as “the Wastelands.” Can they trust each other even as the rules seem to be changing?

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48:06

Ep 123 NHPR Essie Chambers: SWIFT RIVER

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2024/11/10

The third season of in-depth author interviews continues with Essie Chambers, author of "Swift River."Longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2024 First Novel Prize, there’s a lot to unpack in this novel. Sixteen year old Diamond is the only Black person in the town of Swift River, stuck in a town she hates it as much as it hates her. Her mother is a drug addict who can’t pay the bills, and making things even worse, Diamond is buried in an obese body she can’t escape, a symbol of the generational

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49:33

Ep. 122 NHPR Morgan Talty: FIRE EXIT

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2024/11/02

Set around Maine’s Penobscot Reservation, a novel about one man’s family, divided, like the river that separates him from his childhood home. The novel is about belonging, the shifting nature of memory - and bloodlines. Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2024 First Novel Prize.

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50:11

Ep. 121 NHPR Marjan Kamali: THE LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN

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2024/10/27

A heartfelt epic about friendship, betrayal, and redemption during three transformative decades in Iran.

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Ep 120 NHPR Kailane Bradley: MINISTRY OF TIME

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2024/06/29

Kaliane Bradley's debut is a time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy and a testament to what we owe each other in a changing world.

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49:35

Ep 119 NHPR Andrew Boryga: VICTIM

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2024/06/24

In Andrew Boryga's debut "Victim," the protagonist is a hustler from a family of hustlers. He learns to talk about his background in just the right way to open doors to an elite college and writing gigs. The novel asks: What does real diversity look like?

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49:32

Ep 118 NHPR Zibby Owens: BLANK

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2024/06/17

“Blank” by Zibby Owens follows the story of Pippa Jones, a fortyish former literary sensation who fears she will be a one-hit wonder. Her solution to writer's block is an idea her 12-year old son came up with as a joke.

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49:56

Ep 117 NHPR Jennifer Croft: THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY

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2024/06/10

"The Extinction of Irena Rey" is the new novel by famed translator Jennifer Croft. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their arrival, Irena disappears without a trace.

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50:13

Ep 116 NHPR Inci Atrek: HOLIDAY COUNTRY

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2024/06/03

Inci Atrek brings readers a seductive and lyrical debut novel. “Holiday Country" follows a young woman’s dangerous summer romance during an idyllic vacation on the Aegean coast.

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Ep 115 NHPR Aube Rey Lescure: RIVER EAST RIVER WEST

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2024/05/29

Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, Aube Rey Lescure’s “River East, River West” is part coming-of-age tale and part family and social drama. It follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world.

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Ep. 114 Leo Vardiashvili: HARD BY A GREAT FOREST

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2024/05/18

Rachel Barenbaum interviews author Leo Vardiashvili’s about his debut novel“Hard By a Great Forest” – a story about a man who fled the Republic of Georgia in the midst of war. It’s a unique tale about the traumas of war and the lasting effects of those families driven not just to survive, but to remember, love and live.

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Ep. 113 NHPR Maura Cheeks: ACTS OF FORGIVENESS

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2024/05/13

Rachel Barenbaum interviews author Maura Cheeks who talks about her new novel Acts of Forgiveness. Set in a speculative America, readers navigate a world where the government has approved reparation payments for black Americans – but only if they can prove they are descended from slaves.

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52:26

Ep 112 NHPR Vauhini Vara: THIS IS SALVAGED

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2024/01/05

Vauhini Vara's story collection, THIS IS SALVAGED, has been named by The New Yorker, Publisher’s Weekly, Vox, and the New York Public Library as one of the best books of the year.

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Ep. 111 NHPR: 2023 Holiday Show

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2024/01/04

Host Rachel Barenbaum sits down with her colleagues from the Howe Library in Hanover, New Hampshire to discuss their favorite reads from 2023.

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Ep 110 NHPR Emma Törzs: INK BLOOD SISTER SCRIBE

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2023/12/18

This week on Check This Out, host Rachel Barenbaum sits down with Emma Törzs, author of "Ink Blood Sister Scribe." Törzs' debut novel will soon be available in 13 languages. It's a fast paced, magical book about two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's library of magical books. They work together along with a stranger, a magical scribe, to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection. It's a tale of familial loyalty and betrayal and the pursuit of magic and

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Ep 109 NHPR Ayana Mathis: THE UNSETTLED

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2023/12/11

Episode 109. You may know Ayana Mathis from her debut novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie. Published 11 years ago, the excitement and noise around that debut took up all the space and energy Mathis had to write fiction. Her new second novel is called The Unsettled. It’s a mother-daughter-son story that braids two narratives - one from the south and one from the north.

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Ep 108 NHPR John Manuel Arias: WHERE THERE WAS FIRE

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2023/11/27

John Manuel Arias is a queer Costa Rican-American poet and writer who has lived in the U.S. and in Costa Rica where, as he reports, he shared a house with his grandmother and four ghosts. His debut novel, Where There Was Fire, burst onto the scene in August 2023.Set in Costa Rica, this story follows several generations of women in one family — mothers and daughters — alternating between their lives in the 1960s and the 1990s. The novel focuses on one major event that reverberates and haunts each

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