Zehn Joukhadar's guest appearances

Zehn Joukhadar

Books and Boba

Mohsin Hamid

Rachel Khong

Charles Yu

Kamila Shamsie

Abigail Hing Wen

Vanessa Hua

Thi Bui

Misa Sugiura

Jose Antonio Vargas

Weike Wang

Celeste Ng

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Mike Chen

Sarah Kuhn

Malinda Lo

OwlTail

On this episode we discuss our March 2020 book club pick The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar, a novel about two girls on parallel journeys, one a Syrian-American refugee on a journey for safety after her home is shelled in the opening days of the Syrian Civil War, and one a girl posing as a boy to become an apprentice to a legendary cartographer on an epic journey to see the world.For additional thoughts and discussion, visit the Books &amp; Boba Goodreads forums on Goodreads---This episode is brought to you by Book of the Month! Subscribe today and get your first month's book for $9.99 with our promo code BOOKSANDBOBA---Follow our hosts:Reera Yoo (@reeraboo)Marvin Yueh (@marvinyueh)Follow us:FacebookTwitterGoodreads GroupThe Books &amp; Boba April 2020 pick is Mimi Lee Gets a Clue by Jennifer J. ChowThis podcast is part of Potluck: An Asian American Podcast Collective Mentioned in this episode:Books &amp; Boba started a Patreon!After 6 and a half years, Books &amp; Boba has started a Patreon! Our little podcast has been a wonderful labor of love and we’ve been proud of the book discussions and author chats that we’ve been able to bring to you all, but we want to do more! We’ve got big dreams for Books &amp; Boba and so we’re asking our community for support. Help us grow the book club so we can support more books written by Asian diaspora authors!  The Books &amp; Boba Patreon has 2 membership tiers, our “Regular Boba” tier at $3 a month which gives you access to the brand new Books &amp; Boba members-only discord server, and the “Honey Boba” premium tier which comes with discord access as well as access to our new “Boba Chat” podcast where Marvin and Reera chat about non-book related things as well as answer member questions.  Check out our patreon at patreon.com/booksandbobaPatreon

On this episode we discuss our March 2020 book club pick <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36373417-the-map-of-salt-and-stars" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Map of Salt and Stars</a> by Zeyn Joukhadar, a novel about two girls on parallel journeys, one a Syrian-American refugee on a journey for safety after her home is shelled in the opening days of the Syrian Civil War, and one a girl posing as a boy to become an apprentice to a legendary cartographer on an epic journey to see the world.For additional thoughts and discussion, visit the <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/197124-books-boba" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Books &amp; Boba Goodreads forums</a> on Goodreads---This episode is brought to you by <a href="https://bookofthemonth.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book of the Month</a>! Subscribe today and get your first month's book for $9.99 with our promo code BOOKSANDBOBA---Follow our hosts:<ul><li>Reera Yoo (<a href="https://twitter.com/reeraboo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@reeraboo</a>)</li><li>Marvin Yueh (<a href="https://twitter.com/MarvinYueh" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@marvinyueh</a>)</li></ul>Follow us:<ul><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/booksandboba" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/BooksandBoba" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/197124-books-boba" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Goodreads Group</a></li></ul>The Books &amp; Boba April 2020 pick is <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49945387-mimi-lee-gets-a-clue" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mimi Lee Gets a Clue</a> by Jennifer J. ChowThis podcast is part of <a href="http://podcastpotluck.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Potluck: An Asian American Podcast Collective</a> Mentioned in this episode:Books &amp; Boba started a Patreon!After 6 and a half years, Books &amp; Boba has started a Patreon! Our little podcast has been a wonderful labor of love and we’ve been proud of the book discussions and author chats that we’ve been able to bring to you all, but we want to do more! We’ve got big dreams for Books &amp; Boba and so we’re asking our community for support. Help us grow the book club so we can support more books written by Asian diaspora authors! The Books &amp; Boba Patreon has 2 membership tiers, our “Regular Boba” tier at $3 a month which gives you access to the brand new Books &amp; Boba members-only discord server, and the “Honey Boba” premium tier which comes with discord access as well as access to our new “Boba Chat” podcast where Marvin and Reera chat about non-book related things as well as answer member questions. Check out our patreon at <a href="http://patreon.com/booksandboba" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">patreon.com/booksandboba</a><a href="https://booksandboba.captivate.fm/patreon" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon</a>

#96 - The Map of Salt and Stars by Zehn Joukhadar