Catherine Cho, INFERNO

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Zibby was enthralled by Catherine Cho's memoir about her postpartum psychosis when her son was three months old. They talked about preparation for pregnancy being primarily about the physical aspects without considering the mental or psychological shift of becoming a mother, unfolding the trauma of abusive relationships, and the road to recovery.

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1:52.0	Catherine Cho is the author of Inferno, a memoir of Motherhood and Madness.
1:57.5	She is an agent at Curtis Brown in the UK.
1:59.9	Originally from the U.S., she's lived in New York and Hong Kong and currently lives in London with her family. Inferno is her first book. Welcome, Catherine. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books. Thanks, Debbie. I'm so glad to be here. I really cannot wait to discuss this book with you. I was like, ever since the publicist sent me the title of this book,
2:19.3	I was like, oh, I'm going to love that. And I really did. I couldn't put it down. It kept me up at night,
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