Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids.

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Zivie Books. And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids.

Hi. Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show.

If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to

Kids. Here's a little snippet by one of the authors from the anthology. My name is Rex Ogle,

author of free lunch, and I'm stoked to have contributed to

moms don't have time to have kids. My essay is called, Historia Sovere Me, Stories About Me,

and what I really don't have time for is making time for self-care, but I'm learning to make time,

and so should you. Amortals is the author of the Lincoln Highway. He's also the author of the New York Times

bestsellers Rules of Civility, which I adored, and a gentleman in Moscow. The two novels have

collectively sold more than four million copies and have been translated into more than 30 languages.

Talz lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children. Welcome, Amor. Thank you so much for coming on Moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss the Lincoln Highway and all of your work and everything else. Thanks, Debbie. Thanks for having me. I have to tell you that I read the Rules of Civility with my book club years ago when it first came out. And still, it remains one of my favorite books. So good. So amazing. And then I actually, I went and saw you speak somewhere related to that book ages ago. This is, like, embarrassing now that I'm, like, stalking you. But anyway, I was such a huge super fan and now have, like, been following along with you. So I'm delighted to get to talk to you about this book. Great. Terrific. Yes. Okay. The Lincoln Highway. Would you mind just telling listeners a little more about what it's

about and how you came up with the idea for this book? The Lincoln Highway, sort of the background is

before our story begins, as it were, an honorable young Nebraska goes to the county fair with his little brother. A bully

picks a fight with him at the fair. He punches the bully. The bully falls back, hits his head,

and dies. As a result, Emmett, our hero, is sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile work form.

The book opens on the day that Emmett has been released,

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