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288: Weird Sad and Silent by Alison McGhee – Summer Reading Spectacular

 
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Continuing the 2025 Summer Reading Spectacular, Steve chats with Alison McGhee, author of Weird Sad and Silent, about her childhood experiences with libraries, themes like childhood trauma, resilience, and the importance of being seen, and the real life inspiration for the librarian character in the book! And in The Circ Desk segment, Rebecca Vnuk from Library Reads and Lindsey Dunn from NoveList offer reading recommendations related to Alison’s book.

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In this touching novel by the acclaimed author of Telephone of the Tree, an intriguing new boy at school helps Daisy cope with both bullying and past trauma.

Daisy has been working on invisibilizing herself—ever since living with her mother’s violent ex-boyfriend, and now to avoid the school bullies who are targeting her. She keeps a low profile, eating lunch with the librarian instead of in the Lunchroom of Terror and secretly counting whenever she’s anxious.

But things are looking up. A new boy has befriended her and seems able to stand up to the bullies, and the stray cat she’s been feeding is starting to almost trust her. Maybe she can finally focus on futurizing rather than invisibilizing.

ALISON McGHEE has been awarded the Minnesota Book Award and the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for her first novel, Rainlight. This is her second novel. Her short fiction has been published widely in literary magazines. Born and reared in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, she currently lives in Minnesota.

SHOW NOTES:
Weird Sad and Silent

Find out if your library has NoveList!
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Library Reads

The Circ Desk recommends:
If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy
By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
Kiss the Girl by Zoraida Córdova
Tangled Up In You by Christina Lauren
Worth Fighting For by Jesse Q. Sutanto
A Boy Called Bat by Elena Arnold
Close to Famous by Joan Bauer

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Continuing the 2025 Summer Reading Spectacular, Steve chats with Alison McGhee, author of Weird Sad and Silent, about her childhood experiences with libraries, themes like childhood trauma, resilience, and the importance of being seen, and the real life inspiration for the librarian character in the book! And in The Circ Desk segment, Rebecca Vnuk from Library Reads and Lindsey Dunn from NoveList offer reading recommendations related to Alison’s book.

Read the transcript!

In this touching novel by the acclaimed author of Telephone of the Tree, an intriguing new boy at school helps Daisy cope with both bullying and past trauma.

Daisy has been working on invisibilizing herself—ever since living with her mother’s violent ex-boyfriend, and now to avoid the school bullies who are targeting her. She keeps a low profile, eating lunch with the librarian instead of in the Lunchroom of Terror and secretly counting whenever she’s anxious.

But things are looking up. A new boy has befriended her and seems able to stand up to the bullies, and the stray cat she’s been feeding is starting to almost trust her. Maybe she can finally focus on futurizing rather than invisibilizing.

ALISON McGHEE has been awarded the Minnesota Book Award and the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for her first novel, Rainlight. This is her second novel. Her short fiction has been published widely in literary magazines. Born and reared in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, she currently lives in Minnesota.

SHOW NOTES:
Weird Sad and Silent

Find out if your library has NoveList!
Learn more about Learn with NoveList Plus and get a free infographic!
Library Reads

The Circ Desk recommends:
If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy
By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
Kiss the Girl by Zoraida Córdova
Tangled Up In You by Christina Lauren
Worth Fighting For by Jesse Q. Sutanto
A Boy Called Bat by Elena Arnold
Close to Famous by Joan Bauer

  continue reading

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