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Amanda Fields and Brianna Avenia-Tapper talk with long-time LM friend Amy Shearn about how kids change over the years, dating during motherhood, life after divorce, the pandemic, and her forthcoming books, Dear Edna Sloane and Animal Instinct.

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Jane Friedman chats with Holly Rizzuto Palker and Amanda Fields about her publishing guru status, The Business of Being a Writer, and her choice not to have children. She also talks about her relationship with her mother and more.

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Jessica Strawser chats with Holly Rizzuto Palker and Brianna Avenia-Tapper about her newest book, The Last Caretaker. She talks about how her children inspire her writing, how her characters always try to do the right thing, domestic violence and more.

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Amanda Fields and Brianna Avenia-Tapper talk with Erika Hayasaki: journalist, professor, and author of SOMEWHERE SISTERS: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family. SOMEWHERE SISTERS was named an NPR Best Book of the Year, and received a Nautilus Book Award in Journalism and Investigative Reporting, honoring books about social and environmental justice.

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Tiffanie Drayton sits in the Literary Mama guest chair with Amanda Fields, Holly Rizzuto Palker, and Brianna Avenia-Tapper to discuss her memoir Black American Refugee, abusive relationships, racism and inequity, and the horrifying landscape of the U.S. family court system.

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* Custody Peace: Website, X/Twitter

* Tiffanie Drayton: X/Twitter

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Holly Rizzuto Palker and Brianna Avenia-Tapper chat with author, Estelle Erasmus, about her book Writing That Gets Noticed, about being a midlife mom, and about how she re-invented herself during motherhood.

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Amanda Fields, Holly Rizzuto Palker, and Brianna Avenia-Tapper talk with Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, a Chicana author and medical anthropologist. Her newest book, Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing, is a hybrid ethnography, memoir, and testimonio centered on the courageous journey of a Mexican mother fighting for health and educational services for her hearing-impaired daughter.

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