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Rowing to Eden: Episode 1: Love Is Not a Pie

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Episode 1: Love Is Not a Pie

Love Is Not a Pie

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A daughter reflects on her unconventional mother and her rather unconventional love affair

4 Extra Debut. A daughter reflects on her unconventional mother and her rather unconventional love affair. Read by Kelly Burke.

Amy Bloom has long been regarded as a master of the American short story, and her new collection, Rowing to Eden, celebrates more than two decades of her work. In this, one of her best-known tales, a daughter reflects on her unconventional mother, and her rather unconventional love affair.
Author: Amy Bloom is regarded as one of the masters of the American short story. She's the author of three novels (Lucky Us, Away and Love Invents Us), and three collections of short stories, and has been nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Though her novels have been highly acclaimed, she's best known for her short stories, which have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic Monthly, among others, over the past 25 years. She is also a trained psychotherapist
Reader: Kelly Burke
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett.

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