Ashley interviewed Salma El-Wardany about her debut novel, THESE IMPOSSIBLE THINGS. Ashley asked Salma about writing characters who experience disappointment and ambition, societal conversations about religion, sex, and culture, why she chose post-college as the novel’s time period, and how she is building a fantastic presence as an advocate on Instagram. 

Book content warning: rape, abortion

 

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These Impossible Things by Salma El-Wardany

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This episode was edited by Claudia Neu and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.

 

Original music by @iam.onyxrose

 

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