25: Lolita - Esmé Weijun Wang

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If you’re a longtime listener, you know by now that I don’t pick the books we do every episode, the guest does. Mostly that’s so the onus of reading or rereading fresh for the recording session is on me; people normally choose books they love or have recently finished in order to not have to read 400 pages of Victorian Sadness again and again. And I admit, I have rarely said no to a book that someone chose to discuss.

But I almost said no to this one. I hadn’t read it since college, I didn’t get it, I was too uncomfortable. But I should’ve known that my guest wouldn’t lead me astray. You all are in for a phenomenal episode.

Esmé Weijun Wang (https://esmewang.com) is the author of the best-selling book THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS and the novel THE BORDER OF PARADISE. Follow her on Twitter @esmewang
SUMMARY

Humbert Humbert, a college professor, moves to suburban New Hampshire and rooms with widow, Charlotte Haze, and her daughter, Delores, whom she calls Lolita. Humbert becomes obsessed with the 12 year old daughter, and capitalizes on Charlotte's death to kidnap Lolita and abscond with her for years while he molests her. Humbert goes off the rails when Lolita flees to the arms of a pornographer, Clare Quilty, and then her subsequent husband.

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