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  • Feb 18, 2025 | hawaiireviewofbooks.com | Susan Essoyan |Virginia Loo

    SUSAN ESSOYANThis is an apt time to be publishing your book given that women’s reproductive rights are under attack and the issue is so much in the news. You first started writing it 10 years ago. Can you tell us about your original intentions and how the book evolved? VIRGINIA LOOI started writing sections when my son was just 1 or 2, and I was just coming out of that very intense period of figuring things out and starting to feel that this was going to be OK.

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