64: A Girl's Best Friend: Kaya and Lone Dog

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In the fourth Kaya book, we are not treated to an ahistorical birthday party. Instead, a new canine friend enters the American Girl universe and brings some much-needed joy to Kaya. While struggling to deal with the loss of Swan Circling and her sister’s ongoing captivity, Kaya meets Lone Dog, an animal who changes her life, and possibly ours. As we quickly learn, Kaya's dilemma is less “who let the dogs out?” and more “can this dog come in?” In this story, Kaya also has to grapple with scary visions for the future and of course, self-doubt. Come for the discussion of animal life in Nez Perce culture--and stay for the aftermath of our alarming realization that this book is older than Olivia Rodrigo.

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0:00.0	What does home mean to you? I'm Jimmy Femarewa, writer, broadcaster, and restaurant critic.
0:06.4	And I've been speaking to well-known names about what home means to them.
0:10.6	And it was in the East End, it was in Burmese, when Burmese was rough.
0:13.6	I remember thinking, look at the boys, they're going to fancy me.
0:16.4	Good number, Otty, and a chicken curry, you are full, you are connected to your culture,
0:22.1	and you may get a heart attack.
0:23.9	That's where's home really, with me, Jimmy Femarewa.
0:27.4	Find it wherever you're listening to this.
0:30.0	I have a shocking update for you. I'm listening.
0:33.6	So, as of late, you know, a new starlet, new to us, I should say, has come into our lives.
0:39.4	And I learned a shocking fact about Olivia Rodrigo, which is that she was actually born
0:46.0	several months after this kaya book came out. Oh my god.
0:51.2	I feel really old. Maybe I am a geriatric millennial, after all, I don't know anymore.
0:56.8	So, honestly, while her family was preparing for her arrival,
1:01.6	kaya was hitting the scene, and then early 2003 is when we were graced with
1:07.4	a future American girl star of Grace Steers Up Success.
1:11.2	Yes, American girl did launch your favorite newly licensed driver and mine.
1:17.3	Wow, you heard it here first.
1:18.8	Good for her.
1:26.8	Welcome everyone to American Girls, the podcast. This is the show where we're reliving
1:54.9	the American Girl series book by book. I'm Mary.
1:58.2	I'm still Allison.
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