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By the River with Holly Jackson
Kristy Woodson Harvey
Season 2
Episode 208
Holly Jackson is by the river with Kristy Woodson Harvey discussing her novel, The Summer of Songbirds. Kristy shares how she used her childhood experience as summer camp, and her son’s experience, as inspiration for the novel. Holly and Kristy bond over their joint experience at the same summer camp as children and how much of that experience is woven into the book.
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