Growing Up with a Mother in Prison
Harriet Clark's novel The Hill draws deeply from her own life, exploring the emotional and psychological landscape of a child whose mother is serving a life sentence for a politically charged crime. The conversation with Rachel Aviv, moderated by David Remnick, reveals how fiction allow
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