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Ep. 59 - No Family Members Were Harmed in the Making of This Episode with Jesse Q. Sutanto
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Ep. 59 - No Family Members Were Harmed in the Making of This Episode with Jesse Q. Sutanto
FromBook Dreams
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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Jun 24, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
How does an author write her extended family into a madcap romantic comedy and live to tell the tale? Jesse Q. Sutanto--author of the YA thriller The Obsession; the middle-grade fantasy novel Theo Tan and the Fox Spirit; and the debut adult novel Dial A for Aunties, which is being adapted by Netflix into a film--discusses with Eve and Julie the cultural and familial components of her work. They talk about how killing off a (fictional!) blind date gave Jesse the distance she needed to write about her family, why a feast might be forthcoming in a time of emergency, and how Jesse ensured that authenticity overrode stereotyping when she wrote about her Chinese-Indonesian-American family. Jesse, a former wedding photographer, also lifts the veil on the pervasiveness of groomzillas.
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Released:
Jun 24, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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