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Mara Brock Akil Changed TV. But Her Most Urgent Story Demanded a New Medium

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Mara Brock Akil Changed TV. But Her Most Urgent Story Demanded a New Medium
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Mara Brock Akil knows how to savor a moment. You might presume that, for the creator behind a long list of TV hits beginning with the era-defining 2000s sitcom Girlfriends and culminating in the triumphant Judy Blume adaptation Forever, doing press would, by now, be an obligation endured on autopilot. But when I pull out my galley of her debut novel, The Revelation of Dionne Daphne, at the homey restaurant in Manhattan’s Chinatown where we’re having breakfast, she has to pause to drink in the sc

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