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Elizabeth Harris is the author of How to Sleep at Night, a novel.

Liz Harris is an award-winning reporter at the New York Times, where she covers books and the publishing industry.

How to Sleep at Night is her first novel. She lives in New York City, where she covers books and the publishing industry. How to Sleep at

Night is her first novel. She lives in New York City with her wife and kids. Welcome, Liz. Thanks so

much for coming on to talk about how to sleep at night. Your first novel. Congratulations. Yay. Thank you

so much for having me. Sorry, I'm a little excited. You should be excited. The book is great, and there's so much to discuss in the book and in the content, and it's timely and yet universal with all the motherhood stuff and parenting and then politics and lost loves.

There's just so much.

Okay, go back and tell listeners what your book is about, please.

So the book is about it. It's about back and tell listeners what your book is about, please. Sure. So the book is about,

it's about marriage and ambition and what happens when who you are in the world doesn't match how you see yourself. So there's a woman living in suburban New Jersey who's become a stay-at-home

mom by accident, and it's a terrible fit for her. And she feels like an accessory in her husband's

life and desperate to feel like what she wants actually matters. She reconnects with an old

girlfriend who is a woman who is a big shot political reporter at a big, big national newspaper.

And her career is her entire life. But it's become a job that she sort of dreads and resents. And there's this

saying that people who love the uniform more than playing the game, and she's afraid she's become

like that. And then meanwhile, a few towns over, we meet these two men who are married. One is a

Democrat, one is the Republican, and then as the book begins, the Republican decides to run for office.

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