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Reading and discussing Emily of New Moon, the first in a trilogy of Emily novels by Canadian author L.M. Montgomery, who also wrote the Anne of Green Gables series. Hosted by author and journalist Erin Keane. Theme music by Brigid Kaelin.

In 1970, Erin Keane’s mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen years old. Over the next several years, and under two assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America, experiencing freedom, hardship, and tragedy. At fifteen, she met a man in New York City and married him. He was thirty-six. Through a deft balance of journalistic digging, cultural criticism, and poetic reimagining, Keane pieces together the true story of her mother’s teenage years, questioning almost everything she’s been told about her parents and their relationship.