Jen tells a story about the Upper West Side neighborhood she lived and worked in when she was a young woman living in NYC. Working alone in a small office in a rundown building, she relied on the grandmothers in the neighborhood for companionship and safety. Kevin Willmott joins Takeyla and Jen to talk about the story, the similarities between Jewish and black grandmothers, and whether Jen ever did learn how to flirt.
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In the second to last episode of Season 2 Kevin Willmott II joins Jen and Takeyla to interview Jen about a story she told at the Madison Moth StorySlam, explore the themes in the story and discuss how she crafted the story. (Told at the Moth in Madison StorySlam in 2017. Theme: Neighborhoods. Audio recording by Mad Manor Multimedia).
Learn more about Jen's book, We Are Staying: Eighty Years in the Life of a Family, a Store, and a Neighborhood at her website: https://www.rubinjen.com/.
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