Presenting 'Code Switch': Kat Chow's 'Seeing Ghosts'

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🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In this episode from our friends at NPR's Code Switch podcast, Kat Chow chats with former host Shereen Marisol Meraji about her memoir, Seeing Ghosts. After her mother died when Chow was 13, her family rarely discussed how to handle their loss. Chow says she wrote this memoir as a way to talk with her mother about that grief, her navigation of identity and her family's history.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been A Minute from NPR.
0:06.0	I'm Sam Sanders and today we're going to share an episode from our friends at another
0:10.5	NPR show, Code Switch.
0:13.2	So this episode is an interview with Cat Chow.
0:15.8	She actually used to work at Code Switch and she left to go write her book.
0:20.1	It's a memoir called Seeing Ghosts.
0:22.2	In this chat, Cat talks to former Code Switch host Shreen Marisol Miraji about how her book
0:27.2	is an extended conversation with her mother, who she lost when she was 13.
0:31.3	They talk about grief and taxidermy and not pandering to white audiences.
0:36.6	Enjoy.
0:37.6	Hi Cat.
0:39.0	Hi.
0:40.0	Hi.
0:41.0	I know who you are, but for the audience who may not know you, can you introduce yourself?
0:48.0	My name is Cat Chow.
0:49.3	I am a writer and author of the book Seeing Ghosts.
0:53.8	And you might recognize my voice from being a Code Switch reporter.
0:58.0	Cat Jean and I started a Code Switch at the same time, way back in 2013 when the podcast
1:03.4	was just a twinkle in our eyes.
1:06.0	She left after a few years to write a memoir, Seeing Ghosts.
1:09.4	It's about many things.
1:11.3	One of which is how her immediate family, that's Cat, her two older sisters, and her father,
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