{"id":5884,"date":"2020-03-07T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=5884"},"modified":"2020-03-07T22:04:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T03:04:46","slug":"blog-tour-iphigenia-murphy-by-sara-hosey-interview-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-iphigenia-murphy-by-sara-hosey-interview-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: Iphigenia Murphy by Sara Hosey (Interview + Giveaway!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ubb-blog-tour-banner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasticflyingbookclub.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/tour-schedule-iphigenia-murphy-by-sara.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/TOUR-BANNER-33.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: Iphigenia Murphy by Sara Hosey (Interview + Giveaway!)\"><\/a><\/p><p>Happy Saturday and welcome to my stop on the <em>Iphigenia Murphy<\/em> blog tour!! I am so excited to be a part of this tour, and I\u2019m even more excited for you to discover Sara\u2019s favorite scenes from her book, how she chose the names for her characters, and some fun facts about Iphigenia, Corinne, and Anthony that didn\u2019t make it into the book! Plus, follow the rest of the tour and enter to win a print copy of <em>Iphigenia Murphy<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png 800w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-768x91.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/iphigenia-murphy-cover.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: Iphigenia Murphy by Sara Hosey (Interview + Giveaway!)\" title=\"Blog Tour: Iphigenia Murphy by Sara Hosey (Interview + Giveaway!)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>Iphigenia Murphy<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/sara-hosey\/\">Sara Hosey<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  March 10, 2020 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/blackstone-publishing\/\">Blackstone Publishing<\/a> <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/ya\/\">YA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/contemporary\/\">Contemporary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/thriller\/\">Thriller<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 272 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/47914500-iphigenia-murphy\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>Running away from home hasn't solved Iphigenia Murphy's problems. In fact, it's only a matter of time before they'll catch up with her. Iffy is desperate to find her long-lost mother, and, so far, in spite of the need to forage for food and shelter and fend off an unending number of creeps, living in Queens' Forest Park has felt safer than living at home. But as the summer days get shorter, it all threatens to fall apart.<br \/>\nA novel that explores the sustaining love of friendship, the kindness of strangers, and the indelible bond of family, <i>Iphigenia Murphy<\/i> captures the gritty side of 1992 Queens, the most diverse borough in New York City. Just like Iffy, the friends she makes in the park--Angel, a stray dog with the most ridiculous tail; Corinne, a young trans woman who is escaping her own abusive situation; and Anthony, a former foster kid from upstate whose parents are addicts--each seek a place where they feel at home. Whether fate or coincidence has brought them together, within this community of misfits Iffy can finally be herself, but she still has to face the effects of abandonment and abuse--and the possibility that she may be pregnant. During what turns out to be a remarkable journey to find her mother, will Iffy ultimately discover herself?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2020-03-07T11:00:26+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Happy Saturday and welcome to my stop on the Iphigenia Murphy blog tour!! I am so excited to be a part of this tour, and I\\u2019m even more excited for you to discover Sara\\u2019s favorite scenes from \",\n\t\"publisher\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Organization\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"Kait Plus Books\"\t},\n\t\"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\\\/books\\\/blog-tour-iphigenia-murphy-by-sara-hosey-interview-giveaway\\\/\",\n\t\"itemReviewed\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Book\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"Iphigenia Murphy\",\n\t\t\"author\": {\n\t\t\t\"@type\": \"Person\",\n\t\t\t\"name\": \"Sara Hosey\",\n\t\t\t\"sameAs\": \"\"\t\t},\n\t\t\"isbn\": \"1982618299\"\t},\n\t\"author\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Person\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"Kaity\",\n\t\t\"sameAs\": \"https:\\\/\\\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\\\/books\\\/\"\t},\n\t\"reviewRating\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Rating\",\n\t\t\"ratingValue\": false,\n\t\t\"bestRating\": \"5\"\n\t}\n}\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png 800w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-768x91.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sara-Hosey-Interview.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sara-Hosey-Interview.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sara-Hosey-Interview-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sara-Hosey-Interview-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Do you have a favorite scene, quote, or moment from <\/b><b><i>Iphigenia Murphy<\/i><\/b><b>?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a scene early in the novel when a creepy, dangerous guy follows Iffy and attempts to assault her. At first, she finds herself unable to move, to run, to fight back.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People often say that there are two reactions when you\u2019re threatened: fight or flight. There\u2019s actually a third and it\u2019s quite common, especially among those of us who have been raised to be polite, to be quiet, to not assert ourselves. We freeze.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In that scene, though, even though she initially freezes, Iffy does wind up fighting back. She thinks to herself that she is just so tired of being abused, harassed, and intimidated and she is able to rally herself to respond. This scene, in some ways, is almost like a wish-fulfilment or a dramatization of the ways we often wish we\u2019d acted when we\u2019ve failed to stand up for ourselves. I\u2019m not advocating violence, but I do think it\u2019s a satisfying scene because it\u2019s a moment when someone is able to effectively channel her rage and to escape a dangerous situation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If Iphigenia, Corinne, and Anthony were to hang out with characters from other YA books, who would they be and why?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although they are set in slightly different time periods, I feel like Iffy, Corinne and Anthony would get along really well with Eleanor and Park from Rainbow Rowell\u2019s very excellent novel, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eleanor and Park.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Like Iffy, both Eleanor and Park are really into music and I think these three would just endlessly swap mix tapes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More significantly, Eleanor has experienced abuse and bullying. Like both Corinne and Iffy, she has survived difficult times and she is self-reflective and wry and smart. Corinne and Iffy would love her. And I think that Anthony and Park would find themselves connecting in a lot of different ways as well: they\u2019re both sensitive guys who really don\u2019t like conflict but who nevertheless sometimes find themselves in potentially loaded situations; they are also young people who know what it\u2019s like to be a racial minority and to feel the weight of others\u2019 expectations about how and who they should be.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How did you choose the names for your characters?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iffy is named for Iphigenia, a character that Iffy\u2019s mother had read about when she took a course in Greek Drama in college. In the play <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Eumenides<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the character Iphigenia is sacrificed by her father, Agamemnon. He does this so that the winds will blow and his ships will sail and he\u2019ll have success in war.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This might remind you of a similar plot that they used on the show <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Game of Thrones, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in which a father sacrifices his daughter. Unlike in that show, however, in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Eumenides<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the sacrifice of the daughter doesn\u2019t go unavenged. Instead, Iphigenia\u2019s mother murders Agamemnon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This story has long resonated with me personally\u2014I was just always so taken with the idea of the mother avenging the daughter. But I also put it in the book because it is clearly a story that resonated with Iffy\u2019s mom too\u2014she gave her daughter this big, difficult, heavy name in part because she knows her daughter will be able to handle it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, Iphigenia has this really significant first name, but her last name, Murphy, is an Irish name that\u2019s very common in New York and in Queens. The contrast between the two names\u2014one so exotic and unique and the other so familiar\u2014brings into focus, I think, the conflict in Iffy\u2019s own identity. She is trying to figure out who she is and who she belongs to. She\u2019s been disconnected in so many ways from her mother and her mother\u2019s legacy and history. So part of the novel is reconciling those two halves of herself.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>What can you tell us about Iphigenia, Corinne, and Anthony that we may not find out in the book?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I actually wrote an epilogue because I personally needed to know what happened to the characters and even though it wound up not being included in the book, knowing what would happen next was helpful to me in understanding the journey and the character\u2019s development and desires. Here\u2019s just a little bit of info about what happens next to our Iffy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Spoilers-Sweetie-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Spoilers-Sweetie-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Spoilers-Sweetie-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Spoilers-Sweetie-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<span class=\"ubb-spoiler\"><a class=\"ubb-view-spoil\">View Spoiler &raquo;<\/a><span style=\"display: none;\" class=\"ubb-thespoil\"><br\/><br\/>\nIphigenia has a rough couple of years immediately after the action of the novel. She does go to Monticello for a while (to live with Anthony), but that doesn\u2019t work out. She winds up moving back to Queens and staying with Anne and Anne\u2019s girlfriend, getting a GED and going to Queens College. While at college, she takes a class in Urban Studies and one of her assignments is to write an essay on homelessness. She calls Corinne to tell her this and they have a good laugh; Corinne tells Iphigenia that she \u201cbetter get an A.\u201d<br\/><br\/>\n <a class=\"ubb-hide-spoil\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer;\">&laquo; Hide Spoiler<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png 800w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-768x91.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Bookstagram-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Bookstagram-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Bookstagram-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Bookstagram-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B9dOdwXA4NM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/iphigenia-murphy-001-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/iphigenia-murphy-001-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/iphigenia-murphy-001-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/iphigenia-murphy-001-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/iphigenia-murphy-001-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/iphigenia-murphy-001.png 2024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png 800w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-768x91.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/All-About-the-Author-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/All-About-the-Author-1-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/All-About-the-Author-1-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/All-About-the-Author-1-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6243 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sara-hosey-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sara-hosey-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sara-hosey.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Sara Hosey holds a PhD in American literature from the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison and is an associate professor of English and women and gender studies at Nassau Community College. Her book, Home Is Where the Hurt Is: Media Depictions of Wives and Mothers (McFarland, 2019), looks at representations of the domestic in popular culture. Sara grew up in Queens and now lives in Sea Cliff, New York, with her partner and their children. She is working on a second novel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Author-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Author-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Author-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Author-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7273735.Sara_Hosey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Goodreads<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sarahosey.com\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Website <\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hoseysara?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Twitter<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/micahintrepid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"TWITTER (opens in a new tab)\">\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sarahoseyauthor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png 800w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-768x91.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasticflyingbookclub.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/tour-schedule-iphigenia-murphy-by-sara.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5452 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Tour-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Tour-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Tour-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Follow-the-Tour-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png 800w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-768x91.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Enter-the-Giveaway-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Enter-the-Giveaway-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Enter-the-Giveaway-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Enter-the-Giveaway-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/d9681b86467\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enter here to win a print copy of <em>Iphigenia Murphy<\/em> by Sara Hosey!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(US Only!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002.png 800w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/stars-banner-002-768x91.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tell-Me-What-You-Think.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tell-Me-What-You-Think.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tell-Me-What-You-Think-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tell-Me-What-You-Think-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Are you as excited as I am to read this book?!? Let me know in the comments and have a splendiferous day!<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Well-Wishes-Candy-Fishes-Kait-2019-001.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Well-Wishes-Candy-Fishes-Kait-2019-001.png 600w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Well-Wishes-Candy-Fishes-Kait-2019-001-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Saturday and welcome to my stop on the Iphigenia Murphy blog tour!! I am so excited to be a part of this tour, and I\u2019m even more excited for you to discover Sara\u2019s favorite scenes from her book, how she chose the names for her characters, and some fun facts about Iphigenia, Corinne, and Anthony that didn\u2019t make it into the book! Plus, follow the rest of the tour and enter to win a print copy of Iphigenia Murphy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[484,1597,27,734],"tags":[537,489,1414,488,737,1665,462,1058,1666],"reading-challenges":[],"class_list":["post-5884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-tours","category-bookstagram","category-giveaways","category-interviews","tag-blog-tour","tag-book-tour","tag-bookstagram","tag-ffbc","tag-interview","tag-iphigenia-murphy","tag-kait-plus-books","tag-march-2020","tag-sara-hosey","book-author-sara-hosey","book-publisher-blackstone-publishing","book-genre-contemporary","book-genre-ya"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Iphigenia-Murphy-Featured.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5884"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6246,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions\/6246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5884"},{"taxonomy":"reading-challenges","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-challenges?post=5884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}