UNLIKELY FRIENDS, available on Audible.com June 2021, isn’t just a new book: it’s a whole new medium for me–a book to be listened to, not read. You’ll hear not only my voice, but the voices of my mother, my sister, and my childhood friends from Seaman, Ohio. Even my high school history teacher. It’s a memoir about friendship and family, race and religion, country and community–a place where a grown-up New Yorker (me) reconsiders her Appalachian (and Hungarian and Jewish) roots. I had the chance to work with a brilliant young producer at Audible, Lara Kleinschmidt, who showed me that writers don’t have to be afraid of the spoken word.