This is a book club episode. In it, Travis and Amanda will discuss and analyze the first half of Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee. You should expect full “spoilers,” discussions of rhetorical elements, and celebrations / critiques of style and substance.
From the cover: “A novel about identity, loyalty, and the languages that define us, Native Speaker poignantly evokes what it is to feel alien in a culture of aliens, and the longing we all share to connect with the world. In doing so, it introduces a masterly new voice to the literary stage.”