{"id":179145,"date":"2025-08-27T07:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/179145\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:28:11","slug":"nprs-book-of-the-day-npr-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/179145\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR&#8217;s Book of the Day : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756279691_859_\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3840x2160+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F56%2Faa%2Ffad118d94debb08cb88a841628b4%2Fe018de84-3768-4f25-b7c3-5f689484f291.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"loved one\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Aisha Muharrar\u2019s debut novel Loved One is about a woman\u2019s effort to understand her relationship with a friend who\u2019s recently died. Julia had been friends with Gabe for nearly a decade after the two briefly dated \u2013 but their relationship became complicated right before his death. In today\u2019s episode, Muharrar joins NPR\u2019s Juana Summers for a conversation about ambiguous loss, uncertainty, and how the author hoped to write a book about grief that wouldn\u2019t depress people.<\/p>\n<p>To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR&#8217;s book coverage, sign up for Book of the Day+ at plus.npr.org\/bookoftheday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aisha Muharrar\u2019s debut novel Loved One is about a woman\u2019s effort to understand her relationship with a friend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":179146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-179145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115099553420676311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}