Jennifer Haigh, MERCY STREET: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Zibby is joined by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh to talk about her seventh novel, Mercy Street, which was inspired by her experience volunteering at a women's clinic. The two discuss the impact Jennifer's upbringing had on her opinions on reproductive rights and class, as well as why it is so important — especially right now — to talk frankly about abortions. Jennifer also shares how she got her start as an author, why she needs to fully disconnect from the outside world to write, and the effects teaching at UMass Boston has had on her own writing.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Vivi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.
0:07.5	And speaking of books, I have two of my own books coming out this spring and summer.
0:12.7	Princess Charming is a picture book, which debuts on April 19th. And Bookends, a memoir of love, loss, and literature.
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0:28.5	You can find out more at zibbyowens.com or bookendsmemoir.com.
0:34.3	And you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens because I always post about everything. Enjoy the show.
0:41.2	Jennifer Haig is the author of Mercy Street, a novel. Jennifer is the author also of the highly
0:46.3	acclaimed novels Mrs. Kimball, Baker Towers, The Condition, Faith and Heat and Light, and a book of
0:52.5	short stories, News from Heaven. Her books have won the
0:54.9	Penn Hemingway Award, the Massachusetts Book Award, and the Penn New England Award in Fiction,
0:59.5	and have been published in 18 languages. She is a Cooganheim Foundation Fellow and won a
1:03.7	literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mercy Street came out in February of
1:08.9	2022 from Echo. Welcome, Jennifer. Thank you so much for coming
1:12.9	on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss Mercy Street, your novel. Thank you for having me,
1:18.4	Zivie. I'm so excited about this. Oh, yay. Okay. First of all, you've been getting so much coverage
1:23.0	for this book. You must be so excited. It must be doing really well, and that's so awesome.
1:27.1	Congratulations. Please tell listeners what it's about, and that's so awesome. Congratulations.
1:28.0	Please tell listeners what it's about, and then I want to know what inspired you to write this.
1:32.4	Sure. Okay. So Mercy Street is a novel that came out of my experience volunteering at a
1:38.4	women's clinic. This is a book I never would have written otherwise. This was some years ago.
1:42.2	I started volunteering there. Not with any idea of writing about it.
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