Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan | Mad Honey
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2022
- Recorded October 5, 2022
In conversation with Jo Piazza
A “quite prescient and worthwhile” writer who “understands her characters inside and out” (The New York Times Book Review), Jodi Picoult has authored many No. 1 bestsellers that are renowned for combining controversial topics with nuanced characters and precise descriptions of suburbia’s fraught reality. Her 28 novels include House Rules, Handle with Care, Wish You Were Here, Nineteen Minutes, My Sister's Keeper, and Small Great Things, as well as the young adult novel Between the Lines, co-written with her daughter, Samantha van Leer.
The author of more than a dozen books, Jennifer Finney Boylan achieved great literary success in 2003 with her critically acclaimed memoir She’s Not There, the first bestselling book by a transgender American. Her other works include You Are You, Long Black Veil, and I’m Looking Through You, a memoir about her upbringing in a dilapidated mansion on Philadelphia’s Main Line. Currently the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer-in-Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University, a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and a trustee of PEN America, Boylan is a former longtime national co-chair of GLAAD.
In their first collaborative novel, Picoult and Boylan tell the story of a woman who flees with her son to her sleepy New Hampshire hometown only to face the possibility that the teenager shares his father’s explosive tendencies.
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Beautiful discussion! ❤️
I absolutely loved, Mad Honey!
I read the book and really love this interview. My grand(son) is currently "transgendering". This is so helpful.
Amazing interview I loved listening to both your honesty thank you for a wonderful book I have read it twice
33:45 Jodi compares storytelling's power to induce compassion to that of reading facts and figures. If she wishes to support society's most vulnerable -- children, trauma survivors, lesbian and gay people, the neurodivergent and mentally ill, and women -- she'll need to pay closer attention to both real-life stories and statistical fact. She'll have to learn about the stark differences in meaning trans ideology holds for different populations, and she'll have to learn from the stories of detransitioners and desisters, whose numbers are growing every day. ... I imagine this comment will be censored out of existence too, but still I'll try to help people think.
So very true. People taking on and living life as a different gender than their own sex brings with it a multitude of issues and implications for themselves, and for society.
Great point!