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Rerun: #528 Roxanna Asgarian (Mar 2023)

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Roxanna Asgarian is the author of We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America. “Every once in a while, I'll have someone just freak out at me. And it keeps you honest, in a way, because they don't owe you anything. People don't owe you anything as a journalist. ... But everyone reacts to trauma differently and some people really do want to talk about it. And I think the families in this book really wanted to talk about it and it felt like no one was even paying attention to them.” Show notes: @strawburriez Asgarian's Texas Tribune archive We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 2023) 12:00 "Child in viral Portland police hug photo missing, 5 family members dead after California cliff crash" (Shane Dixon Kavanaugh • The Oregonian • Mar 2018) 12:00 "Devonte Hart family crash: Sarah Hart sent alarming 3 a.m. text to friend ... then silence" (Shane Dixon Kavanaugh • The Oregonian • Apr 2018) 13:00 "Devonte Hart family crash: 'It's just devastating,' says aunt who fought for custody" (Roxanna Asgarian and Shane Dixon Kavanaugh • The Oregonian • Apr 2018) 34:00 "Devonte Hart's biological mom: They gave my kids 'to monsters'" (The Oregonian • Apr 2018) 45:00 "Before Children’s Grisly Deaths, A Family Fought for Them and Lost" (The Appeal • Jul 2018) 45:00 "A Mother Grapples with an Adoption that Led to Deaths" (The Appeal • Feb 2019) 45:00 "His siblings were killed by their adoptive mother. He was left in foster care to suffer a more common fate." (Washington Post • Dec 2019) 46:00 Broken Harts (Glamour and HowStuffWorks • 2018) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to the long form podcast. I'm Evan Ratl one of the co-hosts we are off for the holidays and so we wanted to highlight an episode from earlier in 2023.

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In this case it's my interview with Roxanna Asgarian, a reporter based in Texas who had a great book out this year called We Were Once a family. It's a real feat of both reporting and of sensitivity and empathy towards some very difficult subjects.

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And I thought we had a great conversation, so we thought we'd bring it back just to set it up a little bit if you

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haven't read the book to help you follow the conversation. In 2018 there was a

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truly horrific accident in Oregon in which an SUV with a couple and their six children drove off a cliff.

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The parents were white, the children were black and had been adopted, the police

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