Julia and Victoria conclude that How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu is a very good book–Julia is just sad.

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Mentioned in this episode:

How High We Go In the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

AWP Conference

Victoria’s StoryGraph: @victoriafrombookclub

Psychopomp magazine

Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone by Sequoia Nagamatsu

How a fictional plague helped Sequoia Nagamatsu overcome grief” by Michael Berry 

Character map star chart by @bookographic

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