Books that make you TREMBLE! Chelsea Bieker, MADWOMAN

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Zibby welcomes back award-winning author Chelsea Bieker to discuss MADWOMAN, a brilliant, urgent, heart-smashing, darkly comic, and absolutely unforgettable novel about motherhood, memory, generational violence, and the menace of an untold past. Chelsea shares the inspiration behind the book, which she wrote during the pandemic as she started to confront her own past. She delves into the intensity of motherhood, the societal pressures that mothers face, and the lengths women go to save themselves and others. She also discusses the long-term effects of domestic violence, a theme deeply rooted in her own childhood experiences. Finally, she shares her journey as a writer.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, hosted by me, Zibi Owens.
0:07.6	It's an award-winning podcast with over 1,900 episodes, all featuring authors of books you love and those you have yet to discover.
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0:36.8	It'll take you where you need to go. Thanks for listening.
0:42.7	Chelsea Beaker is the author of Madwoman, a novel. Chelsea is also the author of the debut novel
0:48.5	Godshot, which was long listed for the Center for Fiction's first novel prize and named
0:53.1	a Barnes & Noble pick of the
0:54.2	month. Her story collection Heartbroke won the California Book Award and was a New York Times
0:58.8	Best California Book of 2022 and an NPR best book of the year. Her writing has appeared in the
1:04.5	Paris Review, Granta, The Cut, Wall Street Journal, and others. She is the recipient of a
1:09.0	Rona Jaffe Writers Award, as well as residences from
1:11.8	McDowell and Tin House Books. Raised in Hawaii and California, she now lives in Portland, Oregon,
1:16.6	with her husband and two children. Welcome, Chelsea. Thanks so much for coming on moms. Don't have
1:21.2	time to read books to discuss Mad Woman. Congrats. Hi, Sibby. It's so good to be here. I love
1:27.4	talking to you, so I'm thrilled for today. Yay, me too. It was funny because I was reading some of the reviews and how one of them said, you know, this is a, like, maybe it was you who said, I wanted, it's a book that makes you sweat or I want you to sweat when you're reading it or something. So I mentioned this. I probably said that. Yeah, I think you said that. So I mentioned it to my son because I was working
1:48.5	next to him like all day yesterday. And I'm like, this is a book that makes me, I'm supposed to
1:52.5	sweat. So every like half an hour, he'd look over and he's like, sweating mom? Sweating yet?
1:58.5	So anyway, it was great. Okay, tell listeners about the book, please. So this is my third book. It's my
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