Amy Butcher, MOTHERTRUCKER: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 29 May 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Zibby is joined by professor and author Amy Butcher to talk about her book, Mothertrucker, and the story of how she found herself in an eighteen-wheeler in Alaska with a woman named Joy who she met on Instagram. Amy and Zibby discuss the domestic violence situation that inspired Amy to make a change in her life, how Joy and Amy forged a deep connection despite so many differences, and what Amy did to honor Joy's memory after her passing.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Vivi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.
0:07.5	And speaking of books, I have two of my own books coming out this spring and summer.
0:12.7	Princess Charming is a picture book, which debuts on April 19th. And bookends, a memoir of love, loss, and literature.
0:20.5	Comes out on July 1st, and it is truly a labor of love.
0:23.8	I hope you'll pre-order, order, and join me on tour as I go across the country.
0:28.5	You can find out more at zibbyowens.com or bookendsmemoir.com.
0:34.3	And you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens because I always post about everything. Enjoy the show.
0:41.5	Amy Butcher is the author of Mother Trucker, Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America.
0:47.8	By the way, this is published by Little A, which is where my memoir bookends is coming out.
0:52.5	So we are like publishing Soul sisters or something like that.
0:56.3	Anyway, she is, Amy is an award-winning essayist and also author of the 2015 memoir
1:02.1	Visiting Hours.
1:03.4	She has additional work that's been published in the New York Times, Granta, Harper's
1:07.4	the Iowa Review, Lit Hub, Gwarnica, Brevity, and others. Mother Trucker is in development
1:13.4	to be a major motion picture by Make Ready films directed by the primetime Emmy-winning creator
1:18.7	of Transparent and I Love Dick Joey Salloway and starring Academy Award and Golden Globe
1:24.6	winner Julianne Moore. Excerpts from Mother Trucker earned a 2020
1:29.0	Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. And Amy's additional work has benefited
1:34.6	from awards and grants from the Vermont Studio Center, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for
1:40.3	the Arts, the Stanley Awards for International Research, and the Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship
1:45.4	and Creative Writing from Colgate University. Her essay on Images of Violence earned a notable
1:50.9	distinction in the Best American Essays' 2021 series, guest edited by Catherine Schultz.
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