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We made it to another Friday, everybody.

I hope the week was okay for you and that everybody's feeling good and staying safe and

just making it through one day at a time.

I hope you have taken a few minutes in your busy, busy weeks with your kids and your

families and your loved ones or even

by yourself or whatever and read the website. I just launched called We Found Time.com, which you can

also find on Zibby Owens.com, which is featuring exclusive essays, all original content,

written by authors who have been on this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. I hope you

enjoy reading them. They're about all the different things moms don't have time to do, like have sex, work out, eat, breathe, read. Hopefully you can relate and you'll enjoy them. Also, I hope you've been checking out my Instagram live show, which I'm calling ZIG TV. And that's on every day, Monday through Friday, from 11 to 12. So I'm hoping my new content has been helping you through this quarantine. Feel free to reach out to me, Zibi at Zubi-O-Ns. And please join my newsletter, which you can find on my website, Zibbi-O-Ns.com. You can sign up there so you don't miss all the new essays that will come out each week, which I'm hoping will help you all in different ways. I know everybody connects differently to different material. So enjoy it. And I hope you've had a great week. I hope that some of the authors I've been bringing to you have helped in some way. And thanks for sticking with me. Have a great weekend. I'm here today with Ashley Prentice Norton, who's the author of novels The Chocolate Money and If You Left, a graduate of Georgetown and the Creative Writing Program in NYU. She currently lives in New York with her husband and three children. So welcome, Ashley. Thanks for coming on moms. I don't have time to read books. Thank you for having me. Of course. Let's talk about the chocolate money first.

Okay.

That's okay.

So could you please tell listeners what that's about? Well, it's sort of about your standard dysfunctional family with money and bad parenting. And I won't go into sort of the characters and stuff like that because everybody knows the arc. It was so good. And as I've told you before, I've had it for years since when did it come out?

I can't remember.

2012? And I read it actually with my book group. That is amazing. That's like amazing to hear that. So, because you hear people say, I loved your book. And you're like, did they read it? Yeah, no, I've read it. Of course they read it No, and this book came out forever ago. I'm like, are you sure you want me on your podcast?

And you don't have to be played.

And then I realized, like, this is a big deal. This is a big deal to be on your podcast. I'm really grateful. Oh, don't be silly. But it's even better that I read it a long time ago because now I don't have another book that I have to read.

Exactly. Exactly.

So I'm like, ah, I can't do more of this.

Let's go through all my past books.

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