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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: Julie Gerstenblatt on Daughters of Nantucket
Description: Julie Gerstenblatt discusses the first pages of her debut novel, Daughters of Nantucket, how her agent encouraged her omniscient-voiced prologue, her use of repetition to prepare the reader for the “great fire” which becomes the ticking clock of the book, the pleasures of dramatic irony, and how authors might best represent points of view that are unlike their own in terms of race, sexuality, class, and time period.Gerstenblatt’s first pages can be found here.Help local bookstores and our authors by buying this book on Bookshop.Click here for the audio/video...