Episode 80: The Giver

The Giver

It’s Week 3 of Manuary, and we’re finally tackling Lois Lowry’s The Giver. Published in 1993, the book won the Newbery Medal in 1994 and is basically the OG dystopian YA of our generation. The Giver follows 12-year-old Jonas in his journey to fulfill his newly assigned role: the Receiver of Memory for a community that has done away with all memories and feelings in favor of a state of sameness.

Jonas’s story is a heavy and thought-provoking one, and it opens up conversations about all kinds of big moral questions. Brett Vergara joins Alli to discuss many of them on Episode 80 of SSR! Follow Brett on Instagram (@brettsvergara) and Twitter (@BrettSVergara) for takes on politics, The Bachelor, and Baby Yoda.

CHECK OUT BRETT’S BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:

Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography by Rob Lowe

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen

MORE READING:

“The Giver” (Publishers Weekly, 1993)

“Reading Lois Lowry’s The Giver as an Adult” (The Atlantic, 2012)

“Lois Lowry Says The Giver Was Inspired By Her Father’s Memory Loss” (NPR, 2014)

“All the Things I Didn’t Get When I Read The Giver as a Kid” (Slate, 2014)

“About Lois Lowry’s Controversial Book, The Giver” (Thoughtco.com, 2019)

“Book Buzz: Movie boosts sales of Lois Lowry’s The Giver” (USA Today, 2014)

“Lois Lowry on The Giver and the book’s new sequel” (Entertainment Weekly, 2012)

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