Harriet Clark
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460 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Aug
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lose their mothers to prison within their active awareness.
You know, they had a mother at home.
Most women in prison were the primary caregivers for their children.
Most women in prison are mothers.
And so they lost their mothers.
And that is obviously an incredible trauma that I felt fundamentally spared.
And most kids, even though their mothers often had long sentences, their mothers were actively trying to come home.
And I never envied that.
It seemed like another form of torture to me, the way these kids were always hoping, you know, they would at the end of visiting hours, they would say, will you be there this weekend for my recital?
And some of the women would say, I'll try, you know, or will you be able to be there for my graduation?
There was always this possibility on the horizon that to me seems so torturous.
And so I felt grateful to be spared a certain kind of hope and waiting there.
100%.
I think that that's true both with the prison, especially my childhood experience of the prison.
The book allowed me to stay inside rooms and atmospheres that were still bewildering to me, that I was still kind of working something through about.
But I really felt that in terms of my grandparents and their friends.
You know, they had been my entire life until my grandmother passed away when I was 16.
But by the time I was 19, every single one of their friends who had been very, very present parts of my life, every single one of them had passed away.
And so an entire world I had lived inside was gone.
And it felt to me like I was gone.
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