Pernille Ipsen spent her early years in a feminist collective in Copenhagen. She recently wrote a book about the seven women who raised her, which won a major Danish literature prize. Pernille talks about the story of her seven mothers and how to write a story without breaking someone's heart.

To see photos from the book: https://www.wortfm.org/desire-lines-my-seven-mothers/

Book: Et Åbent Øjeblik: Da mine mødre gjorde noget nyt (An Open Moment: When My Mothers Did Something New) (Gyldendal, 2020) by Pernille Ipsen. Image courtesy of Pernille Ipsen.