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What Does the Book Want to Be? With Barbara Sibbald
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If you’ve ever wondered whether that wild, complicated story in your family could become a novel, this episode is for you.
I’m joined by award-winning author Barbara Sibbald, whose latest book, Almost English, began as a family legend, became a genealogy project, then tried to be creative nonfiction—before finally settling into the form it needed all along: a historical novel.
Barbara’s great-grandparents lived in Quetta, on the Northwest Frontier of British India (now Pakistan) between 1885 and 1912. Growing up, she’d heard…
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