Harriet Clark
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Aug
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And so he had spent a lot of time after he got out trying to bring attention to the medical mistreatment in prisons.
And he was just a remarkably committed person.
So now it feels like a great gift that I can think of him as my father because I'm very proud to have him as my father.
I say in my acknowledgments that writing the story, the book, was really a cover story for wanting time to myself.
And I think for many years that was the case until 2017 when Trump came into office the first time.
And that was when I decided...
I think in part because, you know, he had the family separation policy at the border, and I was seeing people have this rightful outrage at having kids taken from their mother's arms, and I really shared that outrage.
But I was also a little bewildered, you know, like, don't you know that this is happening every day at jails and prisons all over this country?
You know, all detention is family separation.
And that was when I realized maybe people didn't know how massive this was.
And that was the first time I thought, oh, I'm going to write a book.
And when I saw this footage of parents carrying their children hundreds of miles, you know, on their backs and in their arms, I knew that this was heroism.
You know, I knew that.
I was seeing the hero's journey and that these were people calling on extraordinary reserves in themselves to try to keep their family together.
And I realized that, you know, the protagonist of my stories, who never seemed to really do anything, I thought, I realized actually she also was a hero.
You know, she was doing something incredibly difficult.
She was resisting the great forces of separation, prison, and death to try to keep her family together.
And so once I knew she was a hero, then the story had a shape and I could finally write a book.
Thank you so much for having me.
Really, it's a great honor.
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