{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 264 \u2014 Jacinda Townsend","description":"Jacinda Townsend is the guest. Her new novel Saint Monkey is now available from W.W. Norton & Co.\r\nRoxane Gay says\r\n“Saint Monkey is an absolute marvel of a book. Jacinda Townsend is dazzling as she transports the reader to a different time and place—the 1950s, rural Kentucky, and Harlem at the height of the jazz era. Two young girls, Audrey and Caroline, fight for a place in the world and, though their paths at times diverge, their journeys and this writer will utterly captivate you.”\r\nAnd Booklist, in a starred review, raves\r\n“This is a breathtakingly insightful, suspenseful, and gorgeously realized novel of cruelty and sorrow, anger and forgiveness, improvisation and survival, and the transcendent beauty of nature and art.”\r\nMonologue topics: teaching my 3-year-old about death.","author_name":"Otherppl with Brad Listi","author_url":"http:\/\/otherppl.com","html":"