To celebrate the release of the When We Vanished audiobook, I met up with the narrator, Dana Wing Lau, for an Instagram livestream on March 19, 2023. We had a great time chatting about the book and many other things, including the joys of sharing meals together, working science into fiction, writing and performing diverse characters, and the pitfalls of leaf-blowers.

You can watch the full video, or read through the transcript below.

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