Harriet Clark

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460 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Aug

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Fresh Air · Best Of: 'Spider-Man' dir. Destin Daniel Cretton / Novelist Harriet Clark · 15 Aug 2026 podcast

So actually m my experience wasn't quite as steady as Susanna's is, though I do think that I had

An experience of peacefulness by virtue of the fact that

I knew nothing was ever gonna change.

You know, my mother had been in there as far back as I could remember and she was gonna be in there forever.

And so that felt like a kind of steady piece for me and um made me feel different than the great difficulties the kids around me were in.

Yes, I think that I did experience myself as having a peace that the children around me did not have.

Because, you know, most children

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?

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