Harriet Clark
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460 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Aug
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made myself understand better the details of my mother's crime.
But one of the things I had wanted to dramatize in the book, you know, there's a chapter where the grandmother who believes you should look things in the face, you know, she's always saying to Susanna, do you go out of your way to know nothing?
And Susanna keeps saying, yes, you know, and that's a lot what the book is about, you know, what feels so threatening about knowing things about our loved ones, like knowing their
or their sufferings or their histories.
You know, the older I get,
The sadder it is to me how little I knew my grandmother, not only because she died almost 30 years ago, but also because I really knew her in the wake of the two greatest tragedies of her life, which were her daughter's life imprisonment and then her husband, her great love's death.
And so I think I knew my grandmother in incredibly grief-stricken years.
And so my grandmother did have a certain atmosphere around her of clearly being...
somewhat embattled with the life she had.
But it's hard for me to source exactly where those feelings came from.
And I will say the grandmother in the book is not my grandmother.
But also, the fundamental thing I had wanted to dramatize in that book was, you know,
My grandmother did not want the life we had.
And to some extent, I did.
I loved my grandmother and she felt like my whole life.
And so, you know, there's a moment in the chapter where the grandmother is fantasizing about how their life should be if the mother hadn't committed the crime.
And Susanna says, I want to live with you.
And the grandmother says, then you're wishing a man dead.
And I think that was a real conundrum to me in my life, that sense of how can I value my life if it's based off of a tragedy and suffering by so many other people.
And so that was one thing that I felt I was trying to look at in the chapter.
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