A Zibby Summer Reads pick! Sara Goodman Confino, BEHIND EVERY GOOD MAN
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Zibby chats with bestselling author Sara Goodman Confino about BEHIND EVERY GOOD MAN, a deliciously entertaining 1960s political rom-com about a DC suburban wife who catches her husband cheating with his secretary… and decides to run the political campaign of his (very handsome) opponent in a Senate race. Sarah highlights the research and her personal connections to the novel, including insights from her elderly relatives who vividly remember the era. She also reflects on the evolution of her characters and the themes of motherhood, self-discovery, and resilience. Sarah reveals that she recently left her teaching career to focus on writing full-time, and touches on her previous novels and upcoming projects.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, hosted by me, Zibi Owens. |
| 0:07.6 | It's an award-winning podcast with over 1,900 episodes, all featuring authors of books you love and those you have yet to discover. |
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| 0:36.8 | It'll take you where you need to go. Thanks for listening. |
| 0:42.5 | Sarah Goodman Confino is the author of Behind Every Goodman, a novel. Sarah teaches high school |
| 0:48.4 | English and journalism in Montgomery County, Maryland, where she lives with her husband, |
| 0:52.8 | two sons, and miniature schnauzers, |
| 0:54.8 | Sandy and Gracie. When she's not writing or working out, she can be found on the beach or at a |
| 0:59.5 | Bruce Springsteen show, sometimes even dancing on stage. Welcome, Sarah. Thank you so much for coming on. |
| 1:04.8 | Moms don't have time to read books to discuss your novel behind every good man. Congratulations. |
| 1:14.1 | Thank you. I really love this book. I love your voice. I love the characters, the unexpected things, the mom, the kid, I mean, all of it. |
| 1:20.7 | It was so fun and the Jewish element and women's empowerment. I mean, all of it. So many great themes. Such a fun story. I |
| 1:29.8 | would turn pages the whole time. So thank you for this one. Oh, thank you. I had a lot of fun |
| 1:34.2 | writing it, honestly, just researching it, just everything. It was great. So tell listeners what your |
| 1:40.1 | book is about, please. So this one is set in 1962. We have our main character, Beverly |
| 1:46.1 | Diamond. She is a 27-year-old wife and mother, two young children. And her husband is running a |
| 1:52.0 | Senate re-election campaign in Maryland for a sitting senator. And her father's a retired congressman. |
| 1:57.3 | And she walks into her husband's office and catches him cheating with his secretary, |
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