Beth Nguyen, OWNER OF A LONELY HEART: A Memoir

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🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Zibby interviews author Beth Nguyen about Owner of a Lonely Heart, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by the Vietnam War and resettlement. Beth shares her immigration and refugee story, revealing that her mother did not flee to the United States with the rest of their family and has, since then, spent less than 24 hours with her. Beth also talks about motherhood, baking, writing to make sense of her feelings, teaching MFA students at the University of Wisconsin, the three books she is currently reading, and why she has a giant Keanu Reeves pillow.

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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.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
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0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
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0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop
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0:47.0	enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in
0:53.3	2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically
0:56.5	my favorite thing. Enjoy. Beth Noguyan is the author of owner of a lonely heart,
1:06.8	a memoir. Beth is the author of three previous books, The Memoir Stealing Buddha's Dinner,
1:11.5	and the novels Short Girls and Pioneer Girl. Her awards and honors include an American Book
1:16.1	Award and a Penn Gerard Award from the Penn America Center. Her work has also appeared in
1:21.4	numerous anthologies and publications, including The New Yorker, the Paris Review, The New York Times,
1:26.1	and Best American Essays. She teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin, the Paris Review, The New York Times, and Best American Essays.
1:31.0	She teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
1:35.6	Welcome, Beth. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss owner of a lonely heart. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me here.
1:41.2	Okay, can you please tell listeners what this book is about? As I was telling you, I read it
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