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Off Book - Melissa & Alex on Dystopian Fiction, Celebrity Memoirs & Captain Underpants

This week on Genre’d: Off Book, we’re joined by Elyse's longtime friend Melissa, a self-proclaimed dystopian-fiction girlie who swears she “doesn’t really read fantasy” (we have notes). We talk about the books that broke open her love of bleak futures and authoritarian governments, why The Giver in fifth grade was maybe a bit much, and how dystopian stories are secretly… kind of hopeful?

Come for the dystopian deep dive; stay for the celebrity memoir recs, curriculum hot takes, and a bonus mini-interview with Melissa’s four-year-old son Alex, who explains why Captain Underpants is his bestie…

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