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Dawn Hogan loves Lego and writing Finding Favorites with Leah Jones
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Dawn Hogan, also known as DW Hogan, is a Hunstville-based author and publishing her first novel on October 5th. We talk about women's access to healthcare, homes for unwed mothers that were common the United States in the 1950-70s, and her family's love affair with Lego sets.
CW: Leah and Dawn talk about coerced adoption, access to abortion, access to birth control and modern searches for biological parents.
Unbroken Bonds by DW Hogan is available on October 5, 2020, in print and digital.
Follow @DawnHoganAuthor on Instagram and Facebook
Follow @findingfavspod on Instagram and Twitter. Rate and review on Apple Podcasts(five stars please)
Show Notes
Visit NASA in Huntsville, Alabama
Concerned United Birth Parents
Inside a home for unwed mothers
Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe V Wade
The Girls Who Went Away
Birthright Film
LEGO bookshop
LEGO chess set
LEGO Design software
LEGO Friends
LEGO and gendered toys
Debbie Patrick cross-stitch patterns
NANOWRIMO
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Dawn 0:00 Hi, my name is Dawn Hogan, I'm an author, and my favorite thing is Legos.
Announcer 0:07 Welcome to the Finding Favorites podcast, where we explore your favorite things without using an algorithm. Here's your host, Leah Jones.
Leah Jones 0:19 Hello, and welcome to Finding Favorites. I am your host, Leah Jones, and this is the podcast where we learn about people's favorite things and get recommendations without using an algorithm. This week, we are continuing a fall of meeting with authors and celebrating their book launches. And today, I have Dawn Hogan with me. Dawn's first novel is being released in about a month. So today, you will go and pre-order it, and get ready to receive it in October. Her book is called "Unbroken Bonds," and it traces the life-long consequences of the naive indiscretions which thrust countless young women into ruined lives, the effects of which are still felt today. And it is about the stories of adoption, we will talk more about as we get into it. Dawn, how are you doing tonight?
Dawn 1:14 I'm doing wonderful. How are you, Leah?
Leah Jones 1:16 I'm good. I'm so happy to be talking to you.
Dawn 1:18 Me, too.
Leah Jones 1:20 Now, we're really gonna get into the book at the end. But do you want to fix -- I was reading part of the synopsis off your website, is there anything you'd like to on one foot -- a quick explanation of the book?
Dawn 1:33 It's about four teenage girls that meet in a home for unwed mothers in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1957. And through that experience, they bond into a life-long friendship, which, during that time, they're keeping the secrets of how they know each other, because it was a really shameful thing. As their lives go along, and attitudes change, and times change, and it's not such a shameful thing to be an unwed mother. And eventually, something bad happens, and they have to decide if they're going to keep their secrets or look for the children they were forced to give away.
Leah Jones 2:32 That sounds like a really, I'm excited to to get my hands on it this fall.
Dawn 2:38 Well, it's so much about female friendship, as well. Which, women know that those close female friendships are the best; they are your support group. So it's a lot about female friendship as well.
Leah Jones 3:01 Oh, outstanding. Outstanding. Now, Dawn before I hit record, you said you were a Chicago girl; that you grew up here before you moved. Where in the Chicagoland area did you grow up?
Dawn 3:17 I was born in Chicago, and then when I was about six, my parents moved out to Streamwood. Then when I was 14, we moved back into the city into the Old Irving Park area. So, I went to Schurz high school -- graduated from Schurz. It was pretty cool, being a teenager growing up in the city, because we could get on a bus or train and go anywhere we wanted. Of course, Cub games were a lot cheaper, back then.
Leah Jones 3:57 You could yo
Dawn Hogan, also known as DW Hogan, is a Hunstville-based author and publishing her first novel on October 5th. We talk about women's access to healthcare, homes for unwed mothers that were common the United States in the 1950-70s, and her family's love affair with Lego sets.
CW: Leah and Dawn talk about coerced adoption, access to abortion, access to birth control and modern searches for biological parents.
Unbroken Bonds by DW Hogan is available on October 5, 2020, in print and digital.
Follow @DawnHoganAuthor on Instagram and Facebook
Follow @findingfavspod on Instagram and Twitter. Rate and review on Apple Podcasts(five stars please)
Show Notes
Visit NASA in Huntsville, Alabama
Concerned United Birth Parents
Inside a home for unwed mothers
Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe V Wade
The Girls Who Went Away
Birthright Film
LEGO bookshop
LEGO chess set
LEGO Design software
LEGO Friends
LEGO and gendered toys
Debbie Patrick cross-stitch patterns
NANOWRIMO
Transcript follows
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Dawn 0:00 Hi, my name is Dawn Hogan, I'm an author, and my favorite thing is Legos.
Announcer 0:07 Welcome to the Finding Favorites podcast, where we explore your favorite things without using an algorithm. Here's your host, Leah Jones.
Leah Jones 0:19 Hello, and welcome to Finding Favorites. I am your host, Leah Jones, and this is the podcast where we learn about people's favorite things and get recommendations without using an algorithm. This week, we are continuing a fall of meeting with authors and celebrating their book launches. And today, I have Dawn Hogan with me. Dawn's first novel is being released in about a month. So today, you will go and pre-order it, and get ready to receive it in October. Her book is called "Unbroken Bonds," and it traces the life-long consequences of the naive indiscretions which thrust countless young women into ruined lives, the effects of which are still felt today. And it is about the stories of adoption, we will talk more about as we get into it. Dawn, how are you doing tonight?
Dawn 1:14 I'm doing wonderful. How are you, Leah?
Leah Jones 1:16 I'm good. I'm so happy to be talking to you.
Dawn 1:18 Me, too.
Leah Jones 1:20 Now, we're really gonna get into the book at the end. But do you want to fix -- I was reading part of the synopsis off your website, is there anything you'd like to on one foot -- a quick explanation of the book?
Dawn 1:33 It's about four teenage girls that meet in a home for unwed mothers in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1957. And through that experience, they bond into a life-long friendship, which, during that time, they're keeping the secrets of how they know each other, because it was a really shameful thing. As their lives go along, and attitudes change, and times change, and it's not such a shameful thing to be an unwed mother. And eventually, something bad happens, and they have to decide if they're going to keep their secrets or look for the children they were forced to give away.
Leah Jones 2:32 That sounds like a really, I'm excited to to get my hands on it this fall.
Dawn 2:38 Well, it's so much about female friendship, as well. Which, women know that those close female friendships are the best; they are your support group. So it's a lot about female friendship as well.
Leah Jones 3:01 Oh, outstanding. Outstanding. Now, Dawn before I hit record, you said you were a Chicago girl; that you grew up here before you moved. Where in the Chicagoland area did you grow up?
Dawn 3:17 I was born in Chicago, and then when I was about six, my parents moved out to Streamwood. Then when I was 14, we moved back into the city into the Old Irving Park area. So, I went to Schurz high school -- graduated from Schurz. It was pretty cool, being a teenager growing up in the city, because we could get on a bus or train and go anywhere we wanted. Of course, Cub games were a lot cheaper, back then.
Leah Jones 3:57 You could yo
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