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Join Mary and Renee as they jump back into the world of 2000s and 2010s Young Adult Fiction. Each week, they discuss a different YA book from their youth and pose hard hitting questions: Why aren't any of these characters in therapy? Is this incest? Why were we so obsessed with toxic vampire boys? Each episode is full of laughs, absurd teen drama, memories of the early 2000s, and a cat who is hellbent on derailing this production. Tune in weekly to see if Mary and Renee can every answer the ultimate question: Why a book?
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![Hold Me Closer, Toxic Dancer: Audition](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/11031841/WABLOGO2_300x300.png)
Thursday Mar 18, 2021
Hold Me Closer, Toxic Dancer: Audition
Thursday Mar 18, 2021
Thursday Mar 18, 2021
Renee departs from her usual fantasy books to bring us Audition by Stasia Ward Kehoe. To help her explain this toxic dance tale to Mary, their friend Gabi joins the call. Audition tells the story of small town Vermonter, Sara, who moves to the hustle and bustle of suburban New Jersey after winning a scholarship to dance at the Jersey Ballet. This *16-year-old* girl falls apart as she grapples with her relationships with dance and a *22-year-old* dancer named Remington. As Sara deals with the emotional and physical pains of dancing, growing up, and being groomed and gaslighted by an adult, our podcasters dive deep into hand kinks, Barbie in the Nutcracker, and the mysterious blue mountains. Don’t prey on teenagers, y’all.
CW: eating disorders
Episode source materials: Ward Kehoe, Stasia. Audition. Penguin Group (Australia), 2012.
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