Just the Right Book! Podcast, hosted by Roxanne Coady of Connecticut’s acclaimed, award-winning, independent bookseller R.J. Julia, is now available on BookTrib.com, the premier website where readers meet writers. The podcast and BookTrib are both dedicated to helping readers find their next favorite read and this pairing will open up a world of great possibilities.

Beloved novelist Claire Messud discovered her life’s calling at a very young age. In her own words, she claims, “It was one of those things I announced when I was a kid. My parents gave me a typewriter for my sixth birthday because I had already said that I wanted to be a writer.” Messud talks to Coady about her latest novel, The Burning Girl, which has quickly become a favorite. Messud, who was a New York Times bestseller of her novel The Emperor’s Children, has a lot to say about her most ‘dangerous’ novel yet. The novel specifically explores the unraveling of two adolescent girl’s friendship as they set out on a dangerous journey. Roxanne describes Claire as, “one of the finest storytellers today about women’s friendships.”

Messud was born in Connecticut and grew up in the US, Canada, and Australia – only to return to the US as a teenager. One of her novels has won a PEN/Faulkner Award, a novel has been shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, and more. Today, she is a novelist as well as a creative writing professor.