I had a wonderful conversation with Michael Tusa, who has a radio show on WRBH Reading Radio in New Orleans. I loved hearing about the station, whose mission is (to quote from the website) “to turn the printed word into the spoken word so that the blind and print impaired can receive the same access to current information as their sighted peers.” The station is staffed by over 150 volunteers, including Mike, who is a gifted interviewer. We spoke about my exploration of disability in Kantika and my rendering of Luna, a character inspired by my actual aunt, Luna Levy. Born into a Sephardic immigrant family in New York in the 1920s, my aunt had a life full of both enormous challenge and tremendous accomplishment, including, in her retirement in Florida, a stint as a freelance journalist who wrote about the local arts and culture scene and opportunities for disabled people. Unfortunately, Luna isn’t around to read my book or hear this interview, but I know she would have been a big fan of the station and its mission. Mike and I touched on many other topics as well—the place of music and song in my novel, the role of Sephardic history, language crossings, superstition (yes, I knock on wood!), old family photographs and more . . . You can listen to our conversation here.