This month, it’s our semi-annual we-pick-em, where we wrestle the control of the book selection process away from our listeners and pick the books ourselves. This time, Matt selected Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Doerr’s latest novel: Cloud Cuckoo Land.
Here’s the summary:
How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds.
Constantinople, 1453:
An orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy with a love for animals risk everything on opposite sides of a city wall to protect the people they love.Idaho, 2020:
An impoverished, idealistic kid seeks revenge on a world that’s crumbling around him. Can he go through with it when a gentle old man stands between him and his plans?Unknown, Sometime in the Future:
With her tiny community in peril, Konstance is the last hope for the human race. To find a way forward, she must look to the oldest stories of all for guidance.Bound together by a single ancient text, these tales interweave to form a tapestry of solace and resilience and a celebration of storytelling itself. Like its predecessor All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr’s new novel is a tale of hope and of profound human connection.
The live-streamed discussion of Cloud Cuckoo Land will occur Friday, April 7th at 9:30 PM Central Time over on our YouTube page. We’ll see you there!
