Amy Lin, HERE AFTER: A Memoir
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Zibby Books author alert!! Zibby speaks with debut Canadian author Amy Lin about HERE AFTER, a beautifully visceral and emotionally intimate memoir in vignettes about the sudden loss of her husband and the two grief-filled years that followed. Amy describes the unconventional method of using tiny text boxes in Word to distill her raw emotions into concise, essential fragments. She also talks about the challenges of navigating her grief amid personal health struggles and a global pandemic, the importance of asking for help, and the transformative nature of connecting with others through writing.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books with Zivie. I'm the host, Zivie Owens. I am an author. My latest is blank, |
| 0:11.9 | pub date March 1st, a novel. I'm also a podcaster, obviously, a publisher, a bookstore owner, |
| 0:17.8 | and so much more. If you love books, you're in the right place. In fact, we call it |
| 0:22.6 | the Zivieverse, or really, the L.A. Times called it the Zivieverse, and we're going with it. |
| 0:27.1 | Go to Zivie Owens.com to learn more and follow me on Instagram at Zivie Owens. |
| 0:33.3 | Amy Lynn is the author of Here After a Memoir. You can hear me smiling because Amy is the Zivie Books author of March. Her debut hereafter comes out on March 5th and she is a dynamo. Go to her Instagram, literary Amy. Watch her. Watch her videos on our Instagram at ZibiBooks Publishing. Check her out. Her writing is |
| 0:55.7 | exquisite. She has gotten three starred reviews in trades, which is like amazing. Most |
| 1:02.3 | people don't get one starred review ever, like me. And her book is just absolutely sensational. |
| 1:09.4 | You should stop what you're doing and go and read it. It's also |
| 1:12.0 | the book of the month club pick for March. So if that didn't convince you, anyway, it's amazing. |
| 1:18.1 | And Amy is amazing. Okay, Amy Lynn is a writer and educator who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. |
| 1:25.1 | A recipient of residencies from Yado and Casa Kamala, her work has been |
| 1:28.4 | published in Plow Shares. Hereafter is her debut memoir. Welcome, Amy. I am so thrilled that |
| 1:34.0 | you're coming on Mom's Don't have time to read books to discuss here after your absolutely |
| 1:38.7 | beautiful memoir, or as you call it in the trailer, a memoir in vignettes, which we honestly probably should |
| 1:45.0 | have called it, but anyway. |
| 1:47.6 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:48.9 | This is incredibly exciting. |
| 1:51.0 | So we had the unique experience of being early, early readers of this beautiful manuscript. |
| 1:58.9 | So I feel incredibly privileged. Tell listeners what your book is |
| 2:03.7 | about and how you ended up even coming to our publishing house. And then I want to dig into |
| 2:09.1 | the grief and your own experience and the poetry that makes up this book and everything else. |
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