A Zibby Summer Reads pick: Wedding Season! Lauren Aliza Green, THE WORLD AFTER ALICE
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Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 13 August 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Zibby speaks with debut author Lauren Aliza Green about THE WORLD AFTER ALICE, a gorgeous and gripping story of two estranged families brought together to celebrate an unexpected wedding. Twelve years after the stunning loss of sixteen-year-old Alice, her brother Benji and her best friend Morgan are getting married—unearthing secrets and reopening deep, painful wounds. Lauren discusses the novel’s exploration of grief, loss, and the lasting impact of suicide, particularly on teenagers. She shares her inspiration for the story, rooted in the rising mental health crisis, and then describes her writing process (including some unconventional habits), her love of Russian literature, and her next project—a modern-day adaptation of King Lear.
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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, |
| 0:19.5 | 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 | Zivie Readers. |
| 0:31.4 | Lauren Elisa Green is the author of the world after Alice, a novel. |
| 0:36.1 | Lauren holds an MFA from the Michner Center for Writers. |
| 0:39.1 | Her work has appeared in conjunctions, American short fiction, glimmer train, and elsewhere. |
| 0:43.0 | She is the author of A Great Dark House, winner of the Poetry Society of America's |
| 0:47.9 | Chatbook Fellowship, and the inaugural recipient of the Even Boland Emerging Poet Award, |
| 0:53.5 | sponsored by Poetry, Ireland, and Stanford University. |
| 0:56.5 | Her writing has received support from the Kenyan Review Workshop, Redloaf, and the Carson McCullors Center. |
| 1:02.3 | Welcome, Lauren. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss The World After Alice. |
| 1:08.6 | Thanks. Thanks for having me. I just took this book with me everywhere for the last week, and so the cover got totally |
| 1:14.5 | squashed in the bottom of my bag, and I'm so sorry. |
| 1:16.7 | I'm holding it up now. |
| 1:17.7 | I've been like smoothing it and everything, but anyway, it's well-born and, you know, |
| 1:22.8 | broken in, if you will. |
| 1:25.4 | Can you please tell listeners what your book is about? Sure. So the world after |
| 1:31.1 | Alice takes place in the shadow of this terrible tragedy, which is the loss of 16-year-old Alice Weil. |
| 1:38.4 | And now 12 years on, Alice's younger brother Benji and her former best friend Morgan, surprise everybody with news |
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