In this episode, your hosts discuss the novel Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese, a story about the woman who inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's character Hester Prynne in the book you had to read in high school, The Scarlet Letter. Anastasia and Megan consider how ancestors can leave legacies that feel like burdens, the volatile existence of outsiders in a close-minded community, and loving someone for who they are rather than how you've idealized them. 

the damn pregnancy trope and how Nathaniel Hawthorne might have been a fuck boy.