Andrea Yaryura Clark, ON A NIGHT OF A THOUSAND STARS
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Andrea Yaryura Clark joins Zibby to talk about her debut novel, On a Night of a Thousand Stars, which focuses on the history of Argentina's Dirty War. The two discuss how the book grew out of a fascination with the children of those who had been disappeared in the 1970s and 80s, as well as how the project originally began as a documentary about those she interviewed. Andrea also shares why she wrote the two timelines as two separate books, who she would cast to play her protagonist in a movie, and what her children think of her work.
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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 |
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| 0:58.3 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Andrea Yariura Clark is the author of On a Night of a Thousand Stars. |
| 1:03.7 | She grew up in Argentina amid the political turmoil of the 1970s until her family relocated to |
| 1:09.0 | North America. After graduating from Georgetown University's |
| 1:12.3 | School of Foreign Service, including a year of study at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, |
| 1:18.3 | and completing her MBA at York University in Toronto, Canada, she returned to Buenos Aires to reconnect |
| 1:23.2 | with her roots. By the 1990s, many sons and daughters of the disappeared, the youngest victims of |
| 1:28.8 | Argentina's military dictatorship in the 1970s, were coming of age and grappling with the fates |
| 1:33.7 | of their families. She interviewed several of these children and their experiences not widely known |
| 1:38.5 | outside Argentina, which inspired her debut novel. Andrea lives in Brooklyn with her husband, |
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