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Sep 2020
18m 51s

Tommy Orange: Reopening

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About this episode

As schools reopen across the country, parents are facing another round of pandemic fear and uncertainty: How safe will their kids be and for how long? And can life—and work—finally take on some semblance of normalcy? Tommy Orange, the bestselling author of There There, asks a more salient and troubling question: What are the kids thinking? 

Narrated by Forrest Goodluck. Hosted by Ashley C. Ford.

This is the final episode of Season 1. Thanks for listening! You can keep reading stories at chronicles.fm.

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