Editors Unedited: Emily Griffin in Conversation with Meg Mason, Author of SORROW AND BLISS

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This week, we welcome Harper Executive Editor Emily Griffin back to the podcast. Emily interviewed Meg Mason, author of the debut novel Sorrow and Bliss. There have been so many amazing quotes for this book. Ann Patchett said: "Sorrow and Bliss is a brilliantly faceted and extremely funny book about depression that engulfed me in the way I'm always hoping to be engulfed by novels. While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know." Wow! Check out some of the other great reviews:

"Brutal, tender, funny, this novel—a portrait of love in all of its many incarnations—came alive for me from the very first page. I saw myself here. I saw the people I love. I am changed by this book."
—Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes

“Sorrow and Bliss is hilarious, haunting, and utterly captivating. Meg Mason has created a heroine as prickly as Bernadette in Where’d You Go, Bernadette. Her humor is as arch and wise as the best work of Joan Didion and Rachel Cusk, yet completely original. What a thrilling new voice!”
—Amanda Eyre Ward, New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters
 
“Mason excels in her heartbreaking U.S. debut, an account of a woman’s self-discovery amid her struggle with mental illness…. Witty and stark, Martha’s emotionally affecting story will delight fans of Sally Rooney.”
—Publishers Weekly Star review
 
Listen to the podcast episode below:

Sorrow and Bliss goes on sale February 9th, 2021.
 
 
-Lainey
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