Brit Bennett, THE VANISHING HALF
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this special weekend re-release, Zibby interviews #1 New York Times bestselling author Brit Bennett about The Vanishing Half, a stunning, immersive, provocative, and compassionate novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.
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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. |
| 0:21.9 | Our books are already out now. |
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| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop |
| 0:40.3 | at one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to |
| 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 it. I am re-releasing my episode with Britt Bennett, who wrote The Vanishing |
| 1:05.7 | Half, because if there's anyone out there who has not read The Vanishing Half, just because it |
| 1:09.9 | didn't come out this summer, doesn't mean you shouldn't read it. It's a really great book, and I enjoyed my |
| 1:14.6 | conversation with Britt about it immensely. This interview that I did with Britt Bennett is from |
| 1:19.8 | an event with Penn America. They host virtual authors' nights, authors' dinners, it used to be, |
| 1:26.1 | and I attended a bunch of them myself before saying, |
| 1:29.9 | you know what, I would love to just get in there and interview one of these people. So I offered |
| 1:33.0 | and said, is there any chance I could interview Britt Bennett? And they said yes. And I was so thrilled. |
| 1:37.1 | And then I read the entire book basically in two sittings over the course of a weekend, could not |
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