#1 New York Times bestselling author! Emily Giffin, THE SUMMER PACT
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Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Zibby welcomes back New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin to discuss THE SUMMER PACT, a tender and heartfelt novel about four college friends who, after suffering a tragedy their senior year, make a pact that causes them to reunite a decade later and embark on a life-changing adventure together. Emily delves into her characters’ individual journeys, touching on narcissistic parents, high academic and athletic pressures, personal growth and self-worth, and the importance of formative friendships and found families.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. |
| 0:08.1 | I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank. |
| 0:14.2 | I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore and more. |
| 0:21.8 | Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at |
| 0:28.4 | Zibby Readers. Emily Giffin is the author of the Summer Pact. |
| 0:34.9 | Emily is the author also of 11 internationally bestselling novels, including |
| 0:39.6 | something borrowed, something blue, all we ever wanted, and meant to be, which she was on this |
| 0:44.8 | podcast discussing already. Emily lives in Atlanta with her family and two dogs. Welcome, Emily. |
| 0:50.5 | Thank you so much for coming back on Mom's No, Time to Read Books to discuss the the summer packed. Congratulations. Thank you, Zibby. It's good to be back with you. I can't think it's been two years since you did by Q&A for the launch of meant to be. Oh, my gosh. Flew by. Like two seconds. Oh, my gosh. I don't even know what happened. Anyway, yes. But thank you so much for inviting me to do that event with you downtown. That was so fun. |
| 1:17.0 | I haven't even been back to that place now that I think about it. I can't remember what it was called, but it was really fun. |
| 1:22.6 | Anyway, the summer pecked. Please tell listeners what this book is about, which, by the way, I really |
| 1:28.3 | enjoyed and had a lot of really important heavier themes packaged in a very sweet, uplifting |
| 1:35.8 | cover and message and, you know, but really important heavier themes hidden with, not even |
| 1:42.2 | hidden. There were some. There were some. Stroms are out. That's strewn throughout that's a better that's a |
| 1:45.8 | better way yeah you know i think so the book is about four friends who meet in college and they're |
| 1:50.8 | just best friends and they click in that way that so happens when we you know go off to school or |
| 1:56.6 | you know a coming of age friendships and a tragedy strikes their senior year in college and they |
| 2:03.5 | make this pact that they will always come together and be there for, they will always be there |
| 2:08.5 | for one another and they will always come together if, you know, anything terrible were to ever |
| 2:13.5 | happen again. Or they, any of them were to hit rock bottom they make this like you know packed to |
| 2:18.4 | their friendship and about 10 years later after graduation something happens and they get in touch |
| 2:25.3 | with one another and they make good on this promise so the book is about their journey they go to |
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