Anna Pitoniak, OUR AMERICAN FRIEND: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Author and editor Anna Pitoniak joins Zibby to talk about her latest novel, Our American Friend, which was inspired by a combination of Anna's fascination with Russian culture and a 2016 GQ article about Melania Trump. The two discuss why writing this novel felt different from Anna's previous two, which life experiences have found their way into each of her books, and what she misses most about working in publishing full-time.

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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.
0:38.9	Enjoy the show.
0:41.6	Anna Petoniak is the author of Our American Friend, a novel.
0:45.7	She's also the author of Necessary People, The Futures, and of course now our American
0:50.2	friend.
0:50.9	Before becoming a full-time author, she worked in book publishing, including as a senior
0:54.8	editor at Random House. Anna grew up in Whistler, British Columbia. She graduated from Yale and lives in New York
1:00.2	City. Welcome, Anna. Thank you so much for coming on. Mom's time to read books to discuss our
1:05.3	American friend. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. It's my pleasure. Okay. So please tell listeners what your book is about.
1:14.7	Sure. So this is the story of an unlikely relationship between a journalist named Sophie Morse,
1:22.6	who was once a White House reporter, attempted to leave the field of writing about politics,
1:27.4	but was beckoned back in by an offer from a mysterious House reporter, attempted to leave the field of writing about politics, but was beckoned
1:28.4	back in by an offer from a mysterious first lady named Lara Kane, who was born and raised
1:34.7	in Soviet Russia and later moved to Paris, and then later yet moved to America and married
1:41.2	the notoriously brash future president, Henry Kane. First Lady Laura Kane asks
1:46.3	Sophie to write her biography and to finally tell the world everything that Laura has kept secret up until
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