KALW 91.7 FM, San Francisco, CA, "Health, Mind and Body" Interview

Paul: Welcome to "Health, Mind and Body," on 91.7 Information Radio, KALW. On the program, we will expore points of view along the whole spectrum of healthcare from liver transplants to faith healing. I'm your host Dr. Paul Linde. My pleasure to have with me here in the KALW studio Margaret Benshoof-Holler. She's the author of a new book called Burning of the Marriage Hat. It's out from Wind Women Press in March of this year. And it's a book about adoption issues as well as an historical novel set in the American west. So Margaret, thanks for being with us. I'm particularly interested in talking about some of the adoption issues that came up in the book. The protaganist sounds, in some ways, is on a journey to find out about her own past. What's the gist of that?

Margaret: The narrator Katherine journeys back to her Wyoming roots to try to find knowledge and healing. The knowledge about how her grandmother died and in the process on the road to Brown Rock, Wyoming (a fictionalized name), she runs into past ghosts which reminds her of what happened to her in Wyoming, whose motto is the "Equality State," in the 1960s. . .

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