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17. Samin Nosrat Always Wanted to Be Famous

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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How I Lost My Mom, My Sister, My Mom's Name

"I basically tried my whole life to be worth me and my sister for my parents," she says. "There's just a lot of psychological stuff that happens, especially in our culture." She has gone through two different ways of figuring out what her second book is about. In the end, it's an offering: You can take it or you don't; that's all it's an offer.

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