Bonus Book Club edition. Guest: Annie Hartnett, The Road to Tender Hearts.
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Jen Hatmaker interviews novelist Annie Hartnett about her book The Road to Tender Hearts, exploring themes of grief, comedy, and personal experiences.
Description: In this Book Club edition of For the Love, Jen sits down with novelist Annie Hartnett to talk about The Road to Tender Hearts — a book Jen calls heart-wrenching, heartwarming, weird, hilarious, and deeply satisfying all at once. They open with a very funny catch-up from Me Camp, the solo month Jen takes every July. This year she’s in a tiny lake town in Canada, cooking, meeting neighbors, reading on the deck at sunset — and buying blueberries for scones instead of checking her calendar. From there, Annie traces her path from high-school art major to novelist, and the two teachers whose offhand comments redirected both of their lives. She unpacks the real backstory behind the novel: a Providence rental house that delivered basement floods, gas leaks, black mold, vicious rats, a falling tree, and a neighborhood tragedy — all in 2020 — and the anxiety that followed her to a new town anyway. Her answer was to write down every bad thing she feared could happen to her family, then make it as funny as she possibly could. Jen and Annie also get into: PJ Halliday, built from Annie’s dad and grandfather — lottery dreams, storytelling, lollipop trees and all Pancakes the…
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