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'Cherry Baby' by Rainbow Rowell explores marriage, weight and living in a GLP-1-obsessed world
Host Deborah Becker speaks with best-selling author Rainbow Rowell about her new novel "Cherry Baby."
It centers around Cherry, whose disintegrating marriage is complicated by the success of her husband's comic strip, which features a wide-hipped, double-chinned character named Baby who fans continually conflate with Cherry.
Book excerpt: 'Cherry Baby'
By Rainbow Rowell
Excerpt taken from "Cherry Baby" by Rainbow Rowell. Shared courtesy of William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.
This segment aired on April 15, 2026.