Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. I know I got your attention bold, right? Yes, not really. I believe that you speak

things into existence. And when people ask me how I'm doing, I say I'm

awesome. Whether I'm having a bad day or not, I think that you can literally use words as power

tools in your life. So I do. So this podcast is awesome, not just because I'm awesome, and I am,

but because I get to talk with amazing awesome people. So up next, stay tuned as I sit and talk with somebody who's

truly awesome. I love to read and I also love to watch television. Things are complicated.

Two things can be true. And today I have the awesome honor and privilege to speak with the author

of the bestselling novel, The Power, which is so complicated and so appropriate for this time that we're living in.

I cannot wait to talk with her.

Let me welcome from across the pond, my sister from another mister, Ms. Naomi, Alderman.

Welcome.

Hi.

Hello.

It's joyful to be here.

And I love what you said.

Readers can watch TV.

I write video games.

We can do all these things.

We contain multitudes.

Yes, yes.

You're writing about things as a creative that I don't think that you've experienced,

but you are able to vividly portray.

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