Belinda Huijuan Tang, A MAP FOR THE MISSING

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Zibby interviews debut author Belinda Huijuan Tang about A Map for the Missing, a mesmerizing and propulsive intergenerational mystery about a math professor who, after ten years in America, returns to rural China to search for his missing father. Belinda reveals that the novel is based on her own great-grandfather’s disappearance and explains how each element of the story draws on her own family’s history. She also talks about the publishing process and how she became a writer in the first place (it involved quitting a very boring cubicle job, studying in China, and attending the Iowa Writer’s Workshop!). You can meet Belinda in person on February 19 at 12 pm ET at Zibby’s Bookshop, where she will be signing books!

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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
0:25.9	podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature,
0:31.8	wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can
0:37.4	learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com,
0:39.5	but really you're here to learn more about the authors,
0:42.2	and that is what we're going to do.
0:44.4	Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts
0:46.9	in the ZCast Podcast Network.
0:49.4	You can learn more at ZCastnetwork.com
0:51.9	and definitely check out those shows as well.
0:58.4	Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Belinda Huijan Tang is the author of a map for The Missing, a novel.
1:03.0	She's a 2021 graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow
1:07.4	and recipient of the Mishner Copernicus Fellowship.
1:10.7	She holds a BA from Stanford University
1:12.3	and was a 2019 work-study fellow at the Middlebury Breadloaf Riders Conference. She lived in China from
1:18.3	2016 to 2018, and while there, she received an MA from Peking University in Beijing. She currently
1:24.2	lives in Los Angeles. Welcome, Belinda. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't
1:28.2	Have Time to Read Books. I'm so glad to be here. Thank you for having me. Oh, it's my pleasure.
1:33.4	Tell listeners, please, about a Map for the Missing. So Map for the Missing begins when Tangi
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