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On today\\u2019s Complicated Conversation we welcome Christine Pride and Jo Piazza to discuss their second novel together, You Were Always Mine, a moving and provocative novel about a Black woman who finds an abandoned white baby, sending her on a collision course with her past, her family, and a birth mother who doesn\\u2019t want to be found.

We chat with Christine and Jo about their protagonist, Cinnamon, a women who has overcome so much, but has learned to keep herself small and not dare to want for more; how secrets and trauma can silence one\\u2019s voice; why they wanted to include the birth mother\\u2019s point of view in epistolary form; motherhood and what it means to create family\\u2013 blood or chosen; race and challenges to the assumptions many of us make; the astrological ways in which the partnership between Christine and Jo works so well; and what\\u2019s next for each of them separately and together.

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