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"Meet Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia. Persephone takes her job as a representative of her country seriously, coming up with an intricate set of rules to survive the problems she encounters: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to look drunk at embassy functions, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. She also suspects her husband is not actually the ambassador’s legal counsel but a secret agent in the CIA. The consummate embassy wife, she takes the newest trailing spouse, Amanda Evans, under her wing. Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Book Cover and Author headshot images provided by the author’s representative. 00:00 - Show Opening 01:06 - Fumbled A Few - Charlie Duda 01:12 - Episode Intro 03:03 - Fumbled A Few (Cont’d) - Charlie Duda 04:29 - Interview with Katie Crouch, Part 1 21:51 - Please Irene - Charlie Duda 24:42 - Interview with Katie Crouch, Part 2 46:00 - Really Really - Charlie Duda 46:07