Today, I’m thrilled to be speaking to Janet Rich Edwards, whose debut novel, Canticle, will be released in December. I’ll be interviewing her for that release on the stage at Porter Square Books in the Seaport on December 3. Today we’ll be talking about how she handled four points of view and how language conveys class and gender as well as her characters’ assumptions about how the world works.

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Janet Rich Edwards is a graduate of Grub Street’s Novel Incubator program. A professor of epidemiology at Harvard, Janet had written more than 300 papers for scientific journals, but was left wondering if she could convey more truth, or at least different truths, through story. When she’s not sneaking hours to write fiction, Janet’s researching facts about women’s health. Canticle is her first novel. She lives outside of Boston with her husband and never more than two cats.

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