Geraldine Brooks on love, loss and ghost writing for Kamala Harris

Dec 12, 2025
28 mins

Episode Description

Geraldine Books is a Pulitzer Prize winning author whose work spans foreign affairs, fiction and politics.

Her most recent books bring readers somewhere far more intimate.

Memorial Days, released this year, is her deeply affecting meditation on love and loss written as she grieved the loss of her husband.

Brooks also takes us behind the scenes of Kamala Harris' memoir 107 Days, and inside the process of ghost writing.

Guest: Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winner author of Memorial Days.

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