This is a book club episode. In it, Travis and Amanda will discuss and analyze the second half of Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie. You should expect full “spoilers,” discussions of rhetorical elements, and celebrations / critiques of style and substance.
From the cover: “Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. Hiroko Tanaka watches her lover from the veranda as he leaves. Sunlight streams across Urakami Valley, and then the world goes white. In the devastating aftermath of the atomic bomb, Hiroko leaves Japan in search of new beginnings…This is a tale of love and war, of three generations, and three world-changing historic events.”