Amy Bloom, IN LOVE:A Memoir of Love and Loss
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In a hybrid podcast-virtual book club episode, Zibby joins New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom to discuss In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss, which tells the beautiful and heartbreaking story of her husband’s journey with Alzheimer’s and his decision to pursue a painless and dignified assisted suicide. Amy answers audience questions about the book itself (its structure, humor, and candid honesty) and about experiencing her husband’s rapid decline and death and finding the bravery to put it all on paper (at his request!).
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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. |
| 0:58.3 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Amy Bloom is the author of In Love, a memoir of love and loss. |
| 1:02.5 | By the way, I loved this book. |
| 1:04.7 | Amy Bloom is the author of four novels, White Houses, Lucky Us, Away, and Love Invents Us, |
| 1:09.8 | and three collections of short stories, |
| 1:11.7 | where the God of Love hangs out, come to me, which was the finalist for the National |
| 1:15.1 | Book Award, and a blind man can see how much I love you, which was a finalist for the |
| 1:19.3 | National Book Critics Circle Award. |
| 1:22.0 | Her first book of nonfiction, normal, transsexual CEOs, cross-trressing cops, and hermaphrodites with attitudes, |
| 1:28.8 | is a staple of university's sociology and biology courses. Her most recent book is the widely |
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