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It's All Write to Hate the First Person


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Ariana and Meryl sit down with Maisy Card, award-winning author of These Ghosts Are Family. They share takes on first person narratives, audiobooks, day jobs, dialect, favorite ways to procrastinate writing, and much more.

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Maisy Card

Maisy Card is the author of the novel These Ghosts Are Family, which won an American Book Award, the  2021 OCM Bocas Prize in fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, AGNI, The New York Times, Guernica, and other publications. Maisy was born in Portmore, Jamaica, and raised in Queens, NY.  She’s currently a public librarian and lives in Newark, NJ.

www.maisycard.com

Find These Ghosts are Family at Bookshop.org, Simon & Schuster, or at your local bookstore or library.

Listen to Maisy's Audbile Original story in Lover’s Rock.

Follow Maisy on Twitter @dracm and Instagram @librarylovefest.

Keep an eye out for Maisy's next novel Difficult Patrons set to be released in 2026.

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