Puzzling Jigsaw Pieces: An Interview with Brittany Penner about her memoir, Children Like Us

About this episode

Linda interviews Brittany Penner about her memoir, discussing themes of adoption, healing, and women's reproductive health.

Welcome back to Season 7 of Getting Lit with Linda, where we learn to love literature one book at a time! In this episode, Linda interviews the Métis writer, Brittany Penner about her memoir, Children Like Us (Random House Canada) . It's elegantly written and carefully crafted, and, in spite of the book's length, Linda couldn't put it down. Linda and Brittany discuss her childhood, the Sixties Scoop (14:32), Brittany's story around being adopted (19:10), and the medical system, in Saskatchewan and Quebec, and across Canada. Here are some other highlights of their discussion: Stanford Marshellow Experiment ( 23:32) Joyce Echaquan and the Joyce Principle (24:52) Healing and empowerment (27:50) Women’s reproductive health (31:23) Photos in the memoir (33) The memoir’s sequel (36:48) Please note the NEW!! feature of the podcast: The "Takeway" (37:52), in which all guest writers, including Brittany, will be offering one piece of advice to aspiring writers. Producer/Host/Writer: Linda Morra; Associate Producer: Maia Harris; Music: Raphael Crux. We are grateful to the Canada Council for their support for this second year of production. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more…

People in this episode

Host: Linda Morra

Guest: Brittany Penner

Topics covered

• memoir
• adoption
• Sixties Scoop
• women's health
• healing
• empowerment

Keywords

• memoir
• Brittany Penner
• Sixties Scoop
• adoption
• women's health
• healing
• Canada

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Random House Canada, Canada Council

Books & works: Children Like Us

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