Nathan spoke with novelist Anna Julia Stainsby, author of The Afterpains. It's the story of Rosy, whose grief over the loss of her infant daughter nearly twenty years ago has all but cut her off from her husband and teenage son. And it's about Isaura, an immigrant from Honduras raising her daughter in Toronto and trying to keep her out of the grip of a centuries-long curse.

Anna Julia Stainsby on ugly truths, isolation, and The Afterpains