Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Actress and writer Sonya Walger (Lost) discusses her debut book LION with award-winning writer Katie Kitamura. Sonya kicks off the discussion with a reading, sharing a formative story from her childhood atop a mountain in Peru, explains her writing process - and how many journals she filled as a result - and opens up about rebuilding mentally and emotionally, as well as physically, after losing her home in the California fires.

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