Poetry. Screenplays. Novels. Meet Roberta Roy

About this episode

Roberta Roy discusses her novel that intertwines significant historical events with a family's struggle for survival.

What do you do when history refuses to stop happening? Roberta Roy, speech-language pathologist turned novelist, sat down with us to talk about The Morning After the Morning After — a gripping, historically accurate novel that weaves January 6th, COVID, Hurricane Ida, and global displacement into one family's fight to hold it all together. This isn't just a book about survival; it's a mirror held up to the chaos we all lived through — and somehow, it's still hopeful.

People in this episode

Host: Al Cole

Guest: Roberta Roy

Topics covered

• novel writing
• historical fiction
• survival
• family dynamics
• current events
• hope

Keywords

• Roberta Roy
• The Morning After the Morning After
• historical novel
• January 6th
• COVID
• Hurricane Ida
• family
• survival
• hope

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Morning After the Morning After

Places: global displacement

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