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Things Mentioned

• Murder, She Wrote is getting a film adaptation with Jamie Lee Curtis starring as Jessica Fletcher
• Women in Translation Month

Books Discussed

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• The Woman in the Purple Skirt - Natsuko Imamura; transl. by Lucy North
• I Remember You - Yrsa Sigurdardottir; transl. by Philip Roughton
• Thing We Lost in the Fire - Mariana Enriquez, transl. by Megan McDowell
• Death Takes Me - Cristina Rivera Garza, transl. by Sarah Booker and Robin Myers
• The Faceless Thing We Adore - Hester Steel
• The Dead Husband Cookbook - Danielle Valentine

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