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Best-selling author Wally Lamb spent nine years working on his newest book, "The River Is Waiting."

In this time, he wrestled with self-doubt, navigated his own sobriety journey and worked as a teacher at York Correctional Institution, Connecticut’s only women’s prison.

His new book explores addiction, reckoning and forgiveness, and the injustice that exists in prison today. It follows one man’s experience in prison after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the death of his son.

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Wally Lamb: author of "The River Is Waiting." He is also the author of "She’s Come Undone" and "I Know This Much Is True."

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This episode originally aired August 19, 2025.

Best-selling author Wally Lamb spent nine years working on his newest book, "The River Is Waiting."
In this time, he wrestled with self-doubt, navigated his own sobriety journey and worked as a teacher at York Correctional Institution, Connecticut&rsquo;s only women&rsquo;s prison.
His new book explores addiction, reckoning and forgiveness, and the injustice that exists in prison today. It follows one man&rsquo;s experience in prison after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the death of his son.
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Wally Lamb: author of "<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-river-is-waiting-wally-lamb/22039422?ean=9781668006399&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=dsa_nonbrand&amp;utm_content={adgroupname}&amp;utm_term=aud-1721779758375:dsa-19959388920&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=12440232635&amp;gbraid=0AAAAACfld40U0sBvRojxaQZnQNGtr6NWK&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwnovFBhDnARIsAO4V7mDXDTBZS240zqvb0ZNNtTyx9MvPOxrCaBaYjAv6VbdERnl8yx17ZAgaAlK-EALw_wcB">The River Is Waiting.</a>" He is also the author of "<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/she-s-come-undone-wally-lamb/12815677?ean=9780671003753&amp;next=t">She&rsquo;s Come Undone</a>" and "<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/i-know-this-much-is-true-wally-lamb/8960307?ean=9780061469084&amp;next=t">I Know This Much Is True</a>."
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This episode originally aired <a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/show/where-we-live/2025-08-19/wally-lamb-interview-the-river-is-waiting">August 19, 2025.</a>

Produced by Connecticut Public, 'Where We Live' puts Connecticut in context. Host Catherine Shen brings us fascinating, informed, in-depth conversations and stories beyond news headlines.  We start local, but we take time to explore domestic and international issues and consider how they impact us personally and here at home.

Produced by Connecticut Public, '<a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/show/where-we-live/about">Where We Live'</a> puts Connecticut in context. Host Catherine Shen brings us fascinating, informed, in-depth conversations and stories beyond news headlines.  We start local, but we take time to explore domestic and international issues and consider how they impact us personally and here at home.

Where We Live is a call-in talk show about who we are in Connecticut and our place in the world.

Where We Live

Produced by Connecticut Public, '<a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/show/where-we-live/about">Where We Live'</a> puts Connecticut in context. Host Catherine Shen brings us fascinating, informed, in-depth conversations and stories beyond news headlines.  We start local, but we take time to explore domestic and international issues and consider how they impact us personally and here at home.

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