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Episode: Grief In Fiction, Grief In Life, with Best-Selling Author, Emily X.R. Pan
Description: NYT best-selling author Emily X.R. Pan had a problem: she wanted to write about her grandmother’s complex and fascinating life in 1920s Taiwan, but the task seemed too overwhelming. A deeply personal experience of grief gave her new insight into not only the novel-in-progress, but her family’s experience of loss as it was passed down through her family line. The novel became The Astonishing Color of After, a glorious, complex story of love, family, magic, and loss.  Emily joins us to talk about writing grief into your stories, and how writing itself is a w...