Trigger warning: death, suicide

Making her way from a small town to an Ivy league university, Jamie-Lee Josselyn has led a life that is all at once normal and extraordinarily absurd. In this episode, she tells various stories from her life, all the while grounded in her passion for writing.

You can learn more about the episode and the project on the podcast website here.

What does it mean to move to a completely unknown country yet feel uncannily at home? How does one find humour amongst the heartbreak when one’s country is spiralling out of control? Those are some of the questions Farid attempts to answer in this episode. He talks about culture and about heartbreak, but above all, he talks about hope and community.

You can find a glossary of some of the terms we use on the podcast website here.

Note: The interviewee was on zoom and therefore there is an unavoidable variation in audio quality throughout the episode.