Ecuador had a magnetic pull on author Lindsey Goldstein since her first gap year abroad as a high school graduate. The small country in northwestern South America, with its legendary volcanoes, lush r...

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Amanda Fields and Holly Rizzuto Palker chat with Leila Farjami, author of Daughter of Salt, about breaking the chain of familial obligations and healing from being a child of war.

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Amanda and Holly chat with Chital Mehta, author of Have You Seen Romit?, about raising children across cultures, stretching marital boundaries, and the weight of writing rejection.

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with David Griffin Brown & Michelle Barker

with David Griffin Brown & Michelle Barker

Amanda Fields and Tiffanie Drayton chat with Shasta Grant, author of When We Were Feral, about absent mothers, growing up in the ’90s, and raising a teenage son in today’s patriarchal landscape.

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