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Claire Keegan: “Small Things Like These”| Oprah’s Book Club

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Thank you for having us.

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Claire Keegan: “Small Things Like These”| Oprah’s Book Club

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Yeah, I think that it highlights how recent it is, especially with Claire's book, Small Palsy, because, and Oren's as well, Girl in the Tunnel, I think you see it around you all the time with young women like us, but also with our mothers and our grandmothers. A lot of that shame and guilt has passed down through the generations, and whether it was directly or indirectly,

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Claire Keegan: “Small Things Like These”| Oprah’s Book Club

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The women in our lives have all been affected by the laundries and the culture over here against women. Because I think at the end of the day, women were punished for being women. And there's just so much hurt and pain. And it's still such a taboo topic to be discussed. And when I've talked to anybody who... has been affected by the same themes of the laundries, they blame themselves.

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Claire Keegan: “Small Things Like These”| Oprah’s Book Club

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And it's hard for that to go away, especially when it was so recent. I think that if we're being honest, it wasn't a giant secret. And I don't think it's time for us to move on from it. I think having the spotlight on it for longer and talking about it is really important.