65: How Do You Know if You’re Writing a Novel? – A Conversation with Reena Shah

Reena Shah is an author, a traveler, a public schoolteacher, a former dancer, a Steinbeck fellow, and a Fulbright scholar. In this episode, we discuss the circuitous development of her debut novel, Every Happiness, what publishing with Bloomsbury taught her, and how she learned to stop worrying and let her characters take the lead.