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i'm here today with linda cohen loigman the author of the two Two Family House and the Wartime Sisters. Linda was a trust in a state's lawyer before raising her children with her husband in the suburbs of New York. A Harvard College and Columbia Law School graduate, Linda, is originally from Longmeadow, Massachusetts, near where the wartime sisters took place. So welcome, Linda. Thanks so much for coming on.

Moms Don't have time to read books. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited. So Linda and I are both sitting here in the middle of winter with colds, so bear with us. Yes, we're a little sniffly, but you won't mind. Yeah. At least we can't get you sick from the radio or whatever. So can you tell listeners what the wartime sisters is about?

Yeah. At least we can't get you sick from the radio or whatever. So can you tell listeners what the wartime sisters is about?

Yes, I will.

It's always a little bit, this, describing this book is a little bit more difficult than

with my first book because in a way it's almost two different things.

So it's a family story, first and foremost, and it's about two sisters

who grow up in Brooklyn, and they are opposites, they don't get along, their parents sort of

contribute to the rift that develops between them, and they become estranged, and then they

are joined back again together at the Springfield Armory, at the start of World War II. So it's also

a homefront story. So it's kind of those two different things. I think of it as a family story first, and that's partly because of the way it came about, which I know we'll talk about, I'm sure. But it also really does involve that greater sisterhood of women who worked at the Springfield Armory during the start of World War II. Well, let's just go right there.

How did this story come about?

Well, so my mom grew up in Brooklyn, and I used that sort of setting for my first book,

The Two Family House.

But she moved to Springfield when she was 18, and she actually stayed behind her family for a few months because she was finishing high school.

So when I went to write my second novel, I wanted to write another family story.

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