This week, we read Ruby Redfort, Look Into My Eyes by Lauren Child. We discuss what it takes to write a book-within-a-book, Lauren Child’s Clarice Bean problem, Ruby’s unnecessary sassiness, and how suspicious it is that a supposedly-good non-governmental spy agency needs help from a child.

Content Warnings: Cultural appropriation, museum ethics, societal ignorance, discussion of criminal justice systems, teenagers in danger, kidnapping, and murder.

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Music

Intro: I Wear Headphones by Silent Partner

Outro: Good Vibes by MBB

More About Khotan

https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/khotan-i-pre-islamic-history

https://www.thoughtco.com/khotan-xingjiang-uygur-autonomous-region-171478

https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2017/eighth-century-khotan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Khotan