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Colleen Oakley

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Colleen Oakley is the USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island, You Were There Too and other unconventional love stories. Her books have been named best books by People Magazine, Us Weekly, Library Journal, and Real Simple, and long-listed for the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize. Her fifth novel THE MOSTLY TRUE STORY OF TANNER & LOUISE will be published by Berkley/Penguin in March 2023.

March 28, 2023

Interview with Colleen Oakley - THE MOSTLY TRUE STORY OF TANNER AND LOUISE

In this interview, Colleen and I discuss The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise, how her grandmother and "Thelma and Louise" inspired this story, the value of connecting with older generations, what it means to be a woman in today's world, Parkinson's, and much more.