Alli Frank and Asha Youmans, NEVER MEANT TO MEET YOU: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Zibby speaks to author duo and repeat MDHTTRB guests Alli Frank and Asha Youmans about Never Meant to Meet You, a sparkling new book about two outwardly different neighbors (a Black Baptist kindergarten teacher and a white Jewish cookbook editor) and the beautiful friendship that forms between them. Alli and Asha describe the origins of their writing partnership, the eye-opening conversations they had as they developed their Black and Jewish characters in a time of racial crisis in America, and their hope to highlight the simple things that unite us (like food!). Finally, they reveal what they are working on next and spill the secrets of their successful, long-distance writing relationship!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can |
| 0:37.4 | learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com, |
| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
| 0:44.4 | Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts |
| 0:46.9 | in the ZCast Podcast Network. |
| 0:49.4 | You can learn more at ZCastnetwork.com |
| 0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
| 0:58.4 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Ali Frank and Asha Humans are the co-authors of Never Meant to Meet You, a novel. |
| 1:03.3 | Allie has worked in education for over 20 years in San Francisco and Seattle, from an overcrowded |
| 1:08.5 | high school to a pristine private girl school. She's |
| 1:11.2 | been a teacher, curriculum leader, coach, college counselor, assistant head private school co-founder, |
| 1:16.5 | sometimes pastor, often mayor, and de facto parent therapist, a graduate of Cornell and Stanford |
| 1:21.6 | universities. Allie can still be found during the day, skiing or running down mountains. And by night |
| 1:26.8 | with her nose deep in a book, |
| 1:28.8 | she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, two daughters, and Bernadoodle. You can also read |
| 1:34.3 | Ali's essays in Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology, which is my anthology from |
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