Episode
Harriet Clark's "The Hill"
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- LARB Radio Hour
- Published
- Jun 26, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 3081
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Summary
Harriet Clark joins Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to speak about her debut novel, The Hill , which mirrors Clark's own life story. It follows a young girl named Suzanna whose mother is a political radical and was incarcerated for a bank robbery gone wrong when her daughter was only a year old. Suzanna is eight as the novel opens and is being raised by her grandparents. But after the death of her grandfather, her grandmother, a former radical herself, refuses to bring her to visit her mother, and she must find other ways to see her. The book charts Suzanna's intertwined desire to both remain near her mother for the rest of her life while also honoring her autonomy, her family history, and her own future.