Book Club: 'The Hypocrite,' by Jo Hamya

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Jo Hamya’s novel “The Hypocrite” follows a famous English novelist as he watches a new play by his daughter, Sophia, in London. The lights go down in the theater, and immediately the novelist realizes: The play is about him, the vacation he took with Sophia a decade earlier and the sins he committed while they were away. In this week’s episode, the Book Review’s MJ Franklin discusses the book with editors Joumana Khatib and Lauren Christensen.

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0:00.0	I'm Gilbert Cruz, editor of the New York Times Book Review and this is the Book Review
0:12.4	podcast. On this week's episode our monthly Book Club
0:16.3	Roundtable hosted by M.J. Franklin. Be sure to stay tuned until the end of the
0:21.2	episode to hear what book we'll be discussing next month.
0:24.4	It's a big one.
0:25.4	For this month's book, I'll kick it over to MJ.
0:28.0	Hello and welcome to another book club episode of the Book Review
0:36.9	podcast I'm MJ Franklin I'm an editor here at the New York Times book review
0:41.0	and for this month's book club we're talking about the
0:43.6	hypocrite by Joe Hamia. Also a quick teaser at the end of this episode we're
0:48.0	going to reveal our selection for our October Book Club so stick with us but
0:52.1	first the hypocrite. This was for me and I can't
0:57.0	resist this selection because personally I love an art monster story and I love
1:01.4	dysfunctional family sagas and this book is both of those things.
1:05.0	I also personally love exploring what's new and percolating and fiction and that's what this is.
1:10.0	A new release that I read and I was immediately like I want to talk about this with other
1:13.7	readers and speaking of I have two wonderful colleagues joining me in the studio
1:19.7	first up we have a familiar voice, Jumana Kteeb.
1:24.0	Jumana needs no introduction.
1:25.6	She's a fellow editor here at the book review.
1:27.7	She's a frequent book clubber.
1:29.4	She was in the podcast last week.
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