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Jervais Haggerty is the author of In Polite Company, a novel. Jervase grew up in Charleston,

South Carolina. After reporting and producing the news for both radio and television, she taught

communications at the Citadel. When not writing, she works on local environmental and transportation issues.

She lives in Charleston with her husband and two daughters.

Welcome, Jervais.

Thanks for coming on. Moms Don't have time to read books to discuss in polite company.

Thank you so much for having me on.

Well, I have to say what appealed to me initially about this was the Charleston setting, because my husband lived in Charleston for like 12 years and loved it so much that his, he got his parents to move there and his sister, who ended up living there even longer than he did.

Oh, my gosh.

What about in town?

When I met him, I actually like went down there a bunch, but he lived on Folly Beach with a couple friends. Awesome. But he worked on Sullivan's Island for a while, and his parents lived in, you take the bridge and it's a little bit further away. Okay. It's probably Mount Pleasant or something. Mount Pleasant. Mount Pleasant. Okay, there you go. Allendaw? Does that make... There's, there's, there's. There's an Awandah. That's even farther. Yeah, that's where they lived when I met them. Oh, it's beautiful. Yeah, cool. So, anyway, I got to go into that, that famous biscuit place, Callie's biscuits. Yeah. Yeah. The King Street area. She is quite a businesswoman. She's really hustled. It's kind of fun to watch from afar.

Yeah.

My in-laws had a crumbulls. Yeah, yeah. The King Street area. She is quite a businesswoman. She's really hustled. It's kind of fun to watch from afar.

Yeah. My in-laws had a crumb cake business. So they had, I mean, I still have it. My sister-in-law, but anyway, at one point, we were like, you should partner with Kelly's biscuits. Like, that would be amazing. Like, where's her facility? So anyway, I was like, I would love to go to Charleston. Thank you for asking. And it didn't disappoint. You have like all the places and everything. Plus, of course, this wonderful relationship. So could you please tell listeners what Inplight Company is about and what inspired you to write it? Sure. Okay. Well, I'll give my little pitch. Impolite Company, as you said, it's based in Charleston, which is my hometown. And it's kind of like a peak behind the veil of high society here.

So it's like an invitation to those beautiful Annabellum homes along the water, into the fancy parties.

So like debutante balls with kidskin gloves that go past the elbow,

pearls, oysters. But I do say it is stamped with a big fat warning label. There's sex,

drugs, and rock and roll in here. And I like to think a little bit of a flicking the nuts to the

patriarchy. So it's been such a blast to write. and it's been just even more fun to talk about it.

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