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👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Please allow me to introduce Joseph Sherman.
You don't think I'm serious about a free Vietnam?
I should stop talking so much.
One city, a divided country, and the war that tore America apart.
Saigon, starring Kelly Marie Tran and Rob Benedict.
Listen to Saigon on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
There's something besides Dahl's disinhibitions and his wild imagination that I think makes him truly electric to young readers.
It's his uncanny ability to crawl inside the mind of a child.
It's not just empathy, it's something deeper.
Dahl has incredible access to his own memories, and what he remembers from his childhood is fear.
At just three years old, Dahl's world was shattered.
His father and sister died within a few weeks of each other.
He's barely old enough to form complete sentences, and death has already become the central character in his story.
His Norwegian mother, Sophie, was suddenly stranded in England, a foreign country for her, with five children to raise.
Three of her own, plus two from her husband's first marriage.
And as if that weren't enough, she's eight months pregnant with another child.
Most women in this nightmare scenario would flee back to familiar territory.
As Dahl suggests in his memoir, they would have sold everything, packed whatever remained, and rushed back to Norway, where her parents and two unmarried sisters were waiting with open arms to help.