“Don't let us make it tidy. It wouldn't seem like a secret garden if it was tidy.” Join Pauline and Peter as they explore healing through nature and play in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

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“It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather!” Join Pauline and Peter as they explore the good and bad of family inheritance and also what Pauline calls “boy culture” in Holes by Louis Sachar

tw: racial violence

“But whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.” Join Pauline and Peter as they discuss Edna Pontellier and her rebellious indiscretions in The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

tw: suicide

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“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them." On this episode, Pauline and Peter discuss magic, friendship, and a dash of generational trauma in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling.

TW: abuse

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“That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.” On this episode, Pauline and Peter explore generational conflict and care through the four mother-daughter relationships in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.

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"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot." Join Pauline and Peter as they discuss Holden Caulfield and all his complexities and contradictions from The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.

TW: sexual abuse, suicide, self-harm

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