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Transcripts for MSNBC Velshi 20240604 16:51:00

Care for, even though they love them. so i think you learned a lot of complicated lessons about love from these unlikely sources. there is greek mythology through line throughout the book. you just mentioned the story of medea. why this story as a vehicle? because i [laughter] i m gonna offer an unsatisfying answer to that question. i happen to have edith hamilton s mythology on my desk that i was writing the rough draft of salvage the bones. and i have always loved that book since i was 12 years old, and i wanted esch to have a source, you know, something outside herself she could reference and she could read. i looked at that book and thought, why can t she read edith hamilton s youth hamilton s with-ology? ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Velshi 20240604 16:49:00

Jasmine, thank you for writing the book and thank you for being with us this morning. thank you for having me. i want to start with the depiction of motherhood in salvage the bones. esch s mother dies in childbirth, her own pregnancy about rejection from the father, and, then some of that was talking about with cnawhich killed one of her own puppies. quote, china is a bloody mouth and bright eyed as medea. if she could speak, this is what i could ask her. is this what motherhood is? end quote. talk to me about this. you know, much of the book is spent, all of the book is told from esch s point of view. so, throughout the entire book, she is trying to figure out what it means to be a mother, because unfortunately, as you mentioned earlier, she doesn t have any models for it. right? so, she has to look for models of motherhood in unlikely places. ....

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