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The Oprah Podcast is home to all-new conversations featuring Oprah Winfrey and today’s foremost thought leaders, global newsmakers, best-selling authors, visionaries and cultural changemakers. Exploring timely themes, including happiness, resilience, consciousness and connection, the weekly series aims to help listeners on their journey to lead their best life. Oprah talks to people about what matters most to them in this moment. Every month, she will feature interviews with authors called ‘Oprah’s Book Club Presented by Starbucks’ with live audiences in Starbucks across the country.
Ann Packer: "Some Bright Nowhere" | Oprah's Book Club
The Oprah Podcast
48 minutes
6 days ago
Ann Packer: "Some Bright Nowhere" | Oprah's Book Club
In this episode of Oprah’s Book Club: Presented by Starbucks, Oprah and Ann Packer discuss Some Bright Nowhere, Ann’s poignant new novel and Oprah’s 120th Book Club selection. This book explores what happens when a wife's dying request shatters everything her husband believed about their 35 years together. Ann’s evocative and beautifully written novel inspired a thought-provoking conversation among readers at a Starbucks coffeehouse in New York City. As our audience discussed the inherent challenges and life-changing insights that come with the privilege and responsibility of caregiving, they were warmed by a Starbucks holiday classic: the Peppermint Mocha.
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00:00:00 - Welcome Ann Packer, author of ‘Some Bright Nowhere’
00:02:40 - Thando shares her feelings about the main characters
00:04:50 - How Ann created the story
00:06:50 - Ann knew the ending before she started
00:07:38 - Recurring theme in Ann’s books
00:10:35 - Ann takes on hard questions
00:14:50 - How Ann wrote from the male perspective
00:17:07 - Support for male caregivers
00:25:30 - Male and female caregiving differences
00:30:38 - The difficulty of speaking your truth
00:31:54 - The power of a dying wish
00:33:48 - What cancer takes away from people
00:39:29 - What can be learned from loss
00:40:32 - Ann wants to normalize talking about death
00:42:50 - How it feels to hit send on your finished book
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The Oprah Podcast is home to all-new conversations featuring Oprah Winfrey and today’s foremost thought leaders, global newsmakers, best-selling authors, visionaries and cultural changemakers. Exploring timely themes, including happiness, resilience, consciousness and connection, the weekly series aims to help listeners on their journey to lead their best life. Oprah talks to people about what matters most to them in this moment. Every month, she will feature interviews with authors called ‘Oprah’s Book Club Presented by Starbucks’ with live audiences in Starbucks across the country.
