Allison Pataki, Author of "Beauty in the Broken Places"

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Allison Pataki, author of memoir, "Beauty in the Broken Places," and best-selling historical fiction books, "Sisi," "The Traitor's Wife" and "The Accidental Empress," shares her story of coping with her husband's unexpected, massive stroke at age 30. She shares her vulnerabilities, her advice, and her thoughts on how faith got her through that horrific time in her life: caring for both her husband (then with the cognitive capabilities of a teenage) and a newborn.

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1:22.1	I'm talking today to Alison Pataki, the author of the utterly amazing memoir, Beauty in the Broken Places,
1:28.5	a memoir of love, faith, and resilience. Allison chronicles her experience coping with her husband's
1:33.7	stroke at age 30 while she was pregnant with their first child. A novelist, Allison has written
1:38.8	several best-selling works, including Sissy, the Trader's Wife, and the Accidental Empress,
1:43.6	as well as two children's books and a book she co-wrote with her brother. She graduated from Yale and now lives in upstate New York with her husband, Dave Levy, and their daughter, Lily, age two, and she is now pregnant with her second child. Hello, it's Zibby Owens. How are you? Hey, Zibby, I'm doing well. How are you? I'm good things, thanks so much for doing this interview. Oh, my... Thank you. Thank you for having me. Of course. I know you're short on time, so I'm going to jump right into it if that's okay. Perfect. Yep, ready when you are. Okay. Your book, Beauty and the Broken Places, was... It was just amazing. So moving, eloquent, relatable, honest, open.
2:20.1	I just, I loved it.
2:21.7	What did it feel like for you coming out with such a personal story after writing historical fiction?
2:27.3	Yeah, it was, well, thank you, first of all.
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