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A Note About the Author


Ayelet Waldman is the author of the novels Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, and Daughter’s Keeper, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace and the Mommy Track Mystery series. She coedited the Voice of Witness book Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons. Waldman was a federal public defender and taught at Loyola Law School and the UC Berkeley School of Law, where she developed a course on the legal and social implications of the war on drugs. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband and four children.

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