For the book lover on your gift list, Grant recommends the mix of magic and science in All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders. He also likes the work of Firoozeh Dumas: It Ain’t So Awful Falafel, about an Iranian teenage girl living in California, as well as Dumas’s books for adults, Funny in Farsi, and Laughing Without An Accent. Martha recommends Kory Stamper’s love letter to lexicography, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, and Jessica Goodfellow’s poetry collection about mountaineering, Whiteout. This is part of a complete episode.
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