Episode 57: Sarah Sentilles on her heart-wrenching memoir, “Stranger Care”

American writer and activist Sarah Sentilles, whose last book “Draw Your Weapons” won the 2018 PEN award for creative non-fiction, talks here about her heart-wrenching new memoir, “Stranger Care” which is about her and her husband’s experience of fostering a baby girl. “I knew she wasn’t mine but I also knew we belonged to each other” she says in this powerful conversation about her profoundly moving book, a love letter to her Coco, foster daughter, and to motherhood itself. Sarah talks about how her love for Coco caused her to challenge deeply held beliefs, about her conviction that kinship is something much broader than biology and about how being Coco’s mother made her a better writer - “more attuned to other human suffering”.

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