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Brooklyn-based writer Jean Hannah Edelstein is the millennial Nora Ephron. Whether in her articles for The Guardian, The Pool, and Elle or her debut memoir This Really Isn’t About You surrounding her father’s death from cancer and the discovery that she had inherited the gene that would cause her the disease too, she confronts some of life’s big questions with heart-breaking honesty, brilliant wit and wry humour. Keep scrolling to read our interview with Edelstein ahead of the book’s publication this Thursday 23rd August. When did you decide to write the book? In its original incarnation, the book was an essay collection — I started writing the first essays about five years ago, when I was still living in Berlin. But as circumstances in my life changed, over time it became clear that it would make more sense as a single narrative. I have to credit my agent, Daisy Parente, with playing a key role in helping me thread it together! We met in person for the first time at a hotel bar i...