"I was living by myself in a one bedroom flat and i was incredibly lonely, very, very lonely all the time," she says. "So as soon as i started writing this new version of people person, i could feel so connected to it,. And then maybe an hour later, i was lik, that's going to be a novel." The book is based on her experiences growing up with nine half-siblings.
Author of the Sunday Times bestselling Queenie—Candice Carty-Williams joins a very special guest host, Roxane Gay, to talk about her latest novel People Person which follows the Pennington family, a cadre of five half-siblings forced together in the wake of a dramatic event.