To wrap up Season 2 we have a love story about a grandmother and her granddaughter - how they came to know themselves through each other, and how they’ve saved each other’s lives, again and again.

It’s a story about home. How we find our place. Our longing for Motherland.

It’s about destiny– the kind we create and the kind that creates us.

And as we prepare to end our season, it’s also a story about taking flight, and saying goodbye.

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Listeners, we want to thank you for joining us for the first two seasons of Mother is a Question. However you found us, it’s an honor to have your attention and your ears. And as we enter this next phase - this unknown territory - and recombobulate, we’d love to hear from you.

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Mother is a Question is created by Natasha Haverty and Julia Metzger-Traber.

Our editor is Rob Rosenthal.

Original Music by Raky Sastri and Julia Read; other music by APM

Manager of The Big Questions Project: Courtney Fleurantin

Coordinating Producer: Emmanuel Desarme

Post-Production Audio Engineer : Sandra Lopez-Monsalve

Executive Producer: Genevieve Sponsler

Interview Recording (DC): Stefanie De Leon Tzic

Interview Recording (Arusha, Tanzania): Munira Kaoneka

Art by Richard Gray

Mother is a Question is a part of the Big Questions Project at PRX and supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

This episode, we’re traveling to a place and time when mama was the muse–back when musicians in the U.S. were constantly singing about “the one who’s always true,” as one of these songs goes. One hundred years ago in the U.S., in the early days of recorded music, a lot of the songs people were listening to were about one particular person: mother.

Thanks to Sarah Bryan, the Association for Cultural Equity, and to Dust to Digital for inspiring this episode.

Mother is a Question is created by Natasha Haverty and Julia Metzger-Traber

Our editor is Rob Rosenthal

Original Music by Raky Sastri and Julia Read

Manager of The Big Questions Project: Courtney Fleurantin

Coordinating Producer: Emmanuel Desarme

Post-Production: Sandra Lopez-Monsalve

Executive Producer: Genevieve Sponsler

Cover art: Pinterest, anonymous

Comedian and mother, Negin Farsad, got a strange assignment - one that sent her on an unexpected trip– a trippy trip– a hero’s quest– into the depths of her unconscious mind... where it turned out, all the monsters of motherhood were there waiting for her.

Four years out from giving birth, Negin hadn’t thought she was avoiding a whole lot. In fact as a comedian, she considered it her job to reveal the hardest things about her life on stage every night–to turn them into jokes. She had even turned her harrowing birth into laughs.

But little did she know how much was still lurking in the dark unknown. How much there was to discover. How much there was to heal.

She told us all about it. This conversation is really special, because Tash and Julia got to talk to Negin together!

Check out Negin's comedy. Neginfarsad.com; @neginfarsad She's hilarious!

And the article that she wrote for Afar magazine about this trip.

Mother is a Question is created by Natasha Haverty and Julia Metzger-Traber.

Our editor is Rob Rosenthal.

Original Music by Raky Sastri and Julia Read; other music by APM

Manager of The Big Questions Project: Courtney Fleurantin

Coordinating Producer: Emmanuel Desarme

Post-Production Audio Engineer : Sandra Lopez-Monsalve

Executive Producer: Genevieve Sponsler

Art by Richard Gray

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