'Cherry Baby' by Rainbow Rowell explores marriage, weight and living in a GLP-1-obsessed world

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published April 15, 2026 at 12:01 PM EDT

The cover of "Cherry Baby" and author Rainbow Rowell. (Courtesy of Harper Collins and Rainbow Rowell)

Host Deborah Becker speaks with best-selling author Rainbow Rowell about her new novel “Cherry Baby.”

It centers around Cherry, whose disintegrating marriage is complicated by the success of her husband’s comic strip, which features a wide-hipped, double-chinned character named Baby who fans continually conflate with Cherry.

Book excerpt: ‘Cherry Baby’

By Rainbow Rowell

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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