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Interview Edition.

This week, we have a very special guest, my friend Ayesha Maharer.

She wrote a fabulous debut novel called Loved One.

What if I read you the blurb from the inner jacket?

I don't read a lot of fiction, folks.

So when I do read fiction and it's great,

and I'm turning those pages and I'm thinking to myself,

what the hell is going to happen with these characters?

You know you're in for a treat.

This is a beautiful book. Here's what the jacket says. When her first love

turned close friend Gabe dies unexpectedly at 29. 30-year-old Julia is launched into an intercontinental

quest to recover his lost possessions. Her journey takes her from Los Angeles to London and into the

murky realm of the past. It also set to Julia on a collision course with the last woman he loved,

a guarded, self-possessed florist and restaurateur named Elizabeth, who insists on withholding

Gabe's beloved guitar, one of the departed indie rock

musician's dearest belongings for reasons Julia can understand. Both women, it turns out,

have something to hide, and soon they find themselves engaged in a complex dance of withholding

and revelation. An emotional mystery spanning years, continent, and relationship statuses loved one introduces

Aisha Mohara as a novelist, intimately attuned to the intricacies of love, memory,

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