• 'Life Hacks for a Little Alien' follows a lonely girl's pursuit of an ancient tome

  • Feb 18 2025
  • Durée: 7 min
  • Podcast

'Life Hacks for a Little Alien' follows a lonely girl's pursuit of an ancient tome

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  • In Life Hacks for a Little Alien, both the narrator and protagonist are unnamed. The debut novel from Alice Franklin is written from a second-person perspective and follows a little girl who experiences the world differently. Little Alien is neurodivergent, but undiagnosed, and often finds that people don't understand her. When she encounters an ancient text written in an unknown language, she sees parallels between its indecipherability and her own experiences. In today's episode, Franklin speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about the way she plays with language in her story, her own diagnosis journey, and our collective definition of normalcy.

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