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i'm really excited to be here today with debut novelist Kate Hope Day.

Kate is a former associate producer at HBO, a graduate of Brynmar with a PhD in English from the University of Pittsburgh.

She currently lives in Oregon with her husband and two children.

Let's talk to Kate about her novel, If Then.

So welcome Kate. Thanks for coming on. Moms Don't have time to read books.

Thank you so much for having me. This is delightful. Oh, so glad. So now's the time to tell people what

your book is about. So you won't forget. Hopefully I won't forget. So if then is a novel about four neighbors who share a cul-de-sac in a fictional town in Oregon called Clearing.

And it follows these four people as they're going about their lives.

One of them, Ginny, a surgeon, and she lives with

her husband Mark and their 11-year-old son, Noah. And Mark is a wildlife biologist, and he studies

how animal behavior can potentially predict natural disasters. Which was very interesting. I had no

idea. Is that true, by the way? That is real science.

Wow.

And I can talk a little more about that later. Sorry to interrupt.

I know. It's a cool, yeah. At first I just made it up and then I went and looked and there's some real science.

That's so interesting. So they're in one house and then in the other house is Cass, who's a new mother,

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