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So my guest today is Susanna Breslin, author of a new memoir called Data Baby,

my life in a psychological experiment.

You know, I have this rigid mother who was not physically affectionate.

I had a father that I loved and felt a connection with, but who left the home.

And when he died, it really was like I lost the one person I had felt some type of connection with in my family, and it just broke my heart.

And it's almost like everything I did after that for a long period of time was just refusing to face the heartbreak of that moment.

Okay, that was Susanna Breslin. Her new memoir is called Datababy,

my life in a psychological experiment available from Legacy Lit, an imprint of Heshet books.

Datababy is a memoir about Susanna Breslin's formative experiences.

As a subject of a lifelong psychological study originated at the University of California, Berkeley.

It was called the Block Project, and it entailed the rigorous observation of children in their daycare

and school settings, tracking them all throughout childhood and even into adulthood on a periodic basis.

Susanna Breslin was enrolled in the Block Project by her parents shortly after she was born in 1968.

The scientists wished to see if a person's adult identity

and outcomes could be accurately predicted from childhood. So Datababy is about Susanna's coming of age,

her difficult family life, her participation, unwitting participation as a child

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