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Carol Gilligan's "Kyra" and Her Take on Hillary
Sorry to interrupt the Chelsea thread, but onward, for a moment. Last week, my book group was lucky enough to host Carol Gilligan. Normally our meetings are cozy and humble; this time we were cozy and grand. Carol talked about her new novel, Kyra. I confess I haven't finished the book (the group is also very forgiving). But it was really a thrill to listen to a highly respected researcher talk about hurling herself over the fiction cliff. That is quite a risk, and Carol surely did not need to take it. And yet she did, with gusto, going so far as to take an introductory fiction writing class and to fall in love with her characters to the point that she expected to run into them when she had dinner recently at a Cambridge restaurant they go to in the book.
Inevitably, the conversation turned to the election. Carol, who is a Hillary supporter, made the same observation that you made, Meghan: When Hillary said she found her voice, she really did; in that moment, the timber and resonance or her speech was deeper and richer. Coming from the author of In a Different Voice, that's powerful confirmation.
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