I think there’s a lot of dissonance for women, where there’s how we want to live, and how we want to see ourselves, and then what our real circumstances are. And I think the more we can close that distance between who we want to be and who we really are—the happier we are.
NPR interviews Megan Bergman about her new collection of historical fiction, Almost Famous Women, and what she hopes the book will teach her own daughters.