Brendan Kiely is The New York Times bestselling author of All American Boys (with Jason Reynolds), Tradition, The Last True Love Story, and The Gospel of Winter. His work has been published in more than ten languages, and he has received a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award, the Walter Dean Myers Award, and the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award. His work was twice selected for the American Library Association’s Best Fiction for Young Adults (2015, 2017), and was a Chicago Public Library Best of the Best (2016) and a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2014. He is on the faculty of the Solstice MFA Program at Pine Manor College. Originally from the Boston area, he now lives with his wife in New York City.
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Cindy Kamp is the host and creator of Your True North radio show and podcast.
Sean O’Melia is currently the producer of Your True North.
“Compassion should be the action”….that helps us all treat others the way we would all like to be treated. Cindy Kamp again highlights in this interview with Kiely the enormous gift of having parents who work to help guide a child’s moral compass and work to support and guide a child’s natural bend toward compassion. This interview so reinforces how simply having strong principles is not enough; instead, they also must be lived even when living those principles force one to be removed from the crowd and/ or the majority. This is often a hard place ro be.