What does it mean to understand the personal and political as truly intertwined?
To know and to understand that the wins, griefs, losses, day-to-days and dreams of our lives are all shaped by political infrastructures?
And how can this knowing transform how we live our lives?
On today’s show, Samantha Haran is in conversation with Lebanese writer Sheree Joseph about her new memoir, Juicy: How to Live a Life in the Wreckage of Expectations. This memoir takes us on a journey through Sheree’s own reckoning with being unable to fulfil what she thought was expected of her by her mid 30s: a husband, motherhood, children, a home, a neat plan. Coming to terms with these expectations-lost required her to re-think everything about what it means to live a meaningful life. Together, Samantha and Sheree talk through how Sheree has been reconceiving everything from motherhood to writing to grief, and finding a new paradigm for how to live in this ever-changing, ever-heartbreaking - but also, ever-beautiful - world.
Buy Sheree Joseph’s memoir, Juicy: How to Live a Life in the Wreckage of Expectations
Follow Sheree on instagram: @shereewriter