Harriet Clark
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460 appearances
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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
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atmosphere around her of
Clearly being
somewhat embattled with the life she had.
Um, 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.
Um, 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
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 and and also
This the fact that
that my grandmother and I did have this difference, um, because she always knew we were inside a tragedy.
She always felt this should not be as it is.
And I fundamentally did accept the life I had and still found much of it meaningful and delightful even.
know, it's interesting because from the outside people have often been struck
By my mother's abandonment of me.
And I know that that is touched on.
This idea of the mother abandoning her child is touched on often in the book.
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