Podcast Rec

[shy_magpie]

Pod Castle ep 165: The Paper Menagerie
Written by Ken Liu
Narrated by: Rajan Khanna
Genre: Fantasy/Magical Realism
Length: 37 Min
Transcript/Text version: io9: Read Ken Liu's amazing story that swept the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards
My Synopsis: This is the story of the son of a mail order bride and his mother as told through the origami animals she makes for him, which come alive. It is also about his relationship with being half Chinese in a very white town.
Tags/Warnings: under the cut

Sex: None
Violence/Blood & Gore: scenes set in a hospital, a character diagnosed with cancer too late for treatment, some of the paper animals come to harm/quit being "alive"
Drug/Alcohol Use: none;
Other: internalized racism, rated PG by Pod Castle, pulls at the heartstrings a bit heavily

Comments

[tomakeanoffer]

Oh, what a neat way to do this! I also haven't listened to this story in years and I kind of want to now.

[shy_magpie]

Thank you!