Bookshop Interview with Author Patricia Grayhall (Episode #167)

In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Patricia Grayhall discusses her debut memoir, Making the Rounds: Defying Norms in Love and Medicine, a coming-of-age story set in the late 1960’s and 1970’s. Defying expectations, Patricia came out as a lesbian at the age of nineteen and pursued her dream of becoming a medical doctor. In Making the Rounds, Patricia shares what it was like for her as she tried to have both love and a medical career at a time when society disapproved of both for a woman. While she hopes her book will entertain, she also hopes it can serve as a survival guide for others who are told their passions or ambitions are wrong. Patricia describes the experience of reliving her own story while writing this book as a rollercoaster ride, but one that allowed her to develop compassion for herself. In this episode, I’ll chat with Patricia about her writing journey, what it was like for her to reconnect with the people in her memoir after all these years, and what she really thinks about the idea that women can have it all.

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