We are back with Season 4! And this time we are assembling an incredible team - we've got an editor with the ears of a legend, the two social media goddesses of the Pacific Northwest, and a hand dandy project manager ready to ... put together an episode? Oh! It's a heist! Yup, we are kicking off Season 4 discussing The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope. This season all our episodes contain Spoilers!! Do if you haven't read it, and want to - turn back! Else, listen in and we will give you enough of a synopsis to get the picture. Have your own thoughts? Let us know (we dare you to)! Submit a footnote!

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The Monsters We Defy book blurb:

A woman able to communicate with spirits must assemble a ragtag crew to pull off a daring heist to save her community in this timely and dazzling historical fantasy that weaves together African American folk magic, history, and romance.

In the summer of 1925, along Washington, DC’s “Black Broadway”, a malevolent entity has begun preying on Negro residents. Twenty-three-year-old Clara Johnson is determined to discover what’s going on in her community. Using her natural ability to talk with spirits, she begins to investigate, but a powerful spirit tasks her with a difficult quest: steal an ancient, magical ring from the finger of a wealthy socialite.

When Clara meets Israel Lee, a supernaturally enhanced jazz musician also vying for the ring, the two decide to work together. They put together an unlikely team including a former circus freak, a pickpocketing Pullman Porter, and an aging vaudeville actor to pull off an impossible heist.

But a dangerous spirit interferes at every turn and conflict in the spirit world is leaking out into the human world. With different agendas, even if Clara and Israel pull off the heist, only one of them can truly win.

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