Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

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our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.

And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Drew Guilfin Fast is the author of Necessary Trouble growing up

at mid-century. Drew is Arthur Kingsley PorterPorter University research professor at Harvard University,

where she served as president from 2007 to 2018. She came to Harvard in 2001 as founding dean of the

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study after 25 years on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.

Faust is the author of several books, including Necessary Trouble, This Republic of Suffering, Death in the American Civil War, winner of the Bankrupt Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Mothers of Invention, Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, which won the Francis Parkman Prize. She and her husband live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Welcome, Drew. Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss your memoir, Necessary Trouble Growing Up at Mid-Century. Thank you for inviting me.

It's my pleasure. I was so excited when I saw that you had a book coming out, and I know it's

not coming out, even though this will air closer to the time of your book, that this is a summer book. And as soon as I saw it, like, in a catalog, I was like, oh my gosh, I have to talk to. I can't wait to hear how did it end up becoming like the head of where you read? Like, how did this all happen? And when I, and I like poured over your book and all of it. And then I was

curious as to why it started and stopped where you had it. And is there a continuation? Is there

like a part two coming out next? And just maybe talk about the idea of even starting your book and how you,

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