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🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Zibby speaks to award-winning writer Ava Chin about Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming, a gorgeously written, deeply researched, and intimate portrayal of the Chinese Exclusion Act and her family’s epic journey to lay down roots in America. Ava shares how this book came to be – from collecting family stories since she was a child, to traveling to Shanghai on a Fulbright to investigate her village, to putting piles and piles of notes into book form. She also talks about her job as a professor of creative writing, the pains of audiobook recording, and her best advice for aspiring writers.
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
0:06.7 | This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes. |
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0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop |
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0:47.9 | our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018. |
0:56.5 | And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy it. Eva Chin is the author of Mott Street, a Chinese-American |
1:06.9 | family's story of exclusion and homecoming. Ava is also the author of Eating Wildly, |
1:12.8 | winner of the Le Dame Descofier International MF Fisher Book Prize. Her writing has appeared in the |
1:18.8 | New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the village voice, and sever. |
1:23.1 | She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the New York Public Library's Coleman Center, |
1:27.7 | the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York Institute for the Humanities, |
1:33.0 | and the Asian American Writers Workshop. |
1:35.0 | She is an associate professor of creative nonfiction at the City University of New York. |
1:39.6 | Welcome, Ava. Thank you so much for coming on moms. |
1:41.9 | Don't have time to read books to discuss Mont Street, a Chinese American family story of exclusion and homecoming. Congratulations. |
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