Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
This week, Donald Trump will have been in office for a year during his second term.
Well, this is where my guest today comes in.
She's a writer and a psychologist whose work examines what happens when power,
silence and loyalty collide, first inside a family and then far beyond it.
She first came to public attention with a memoir that looked unflinchingly at one of the most famous families in the world,
including her uncle Donald, and asked how private damage can scale into public consequence.
That book was met with extraordinary attention, intense scrutiny and legal pressure,
selling nearly a million copies on its first day and more than a million in its first week.
What followed was not retreat but expansion from family trauma to national reckoning and most recently back again in a quieter deeply intimate memoir centered on her father.
Across her work she's explored inheritance and harm,
truth-telling and consequence and the long unfinished work of repair, personal and collective.
My guest today is Mary L.
Chomp.
Welcome.
Thank you so much.
It's wonderful to be with you.
It's so lovely to be here just to give this some context.
We met at a party in New York for Eugene Carroll, who's a good friend of yours.