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Totally Booked with Zibby

Bryan Washington, MEMORIAL

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Washington says his editor calls his debut novel Memorial a "rom-com with teeth.” Zibby calls it "powerful and raw.” Good Morning America agreed and selected it as their November book pick! Bryan spoke to Zibby about wanting to write a love story about characters that he hadn't seen on the page, his Jamaican heritage, and more.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, moms don't have time to read books.

0:13.6

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0:20.9

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0:26.4

And finally, join my virtual book club called Zivie's Virtual Book Club,

0:30.4

which meets every other Tuesday at 2 p.m. Eastern Time until 3 p.m.

0:34.5

And features half an hour of book club discussion followed by 30 minutes of

0:38.1

Q&A with the author whose book we've just discussed. You can sign up on my website,

0:43.2

zibbyowens.com, under the virtual book club section, or even on Instagram under the link in my

0:49.2

bio. I hope you'll find me in all these different channels and enjoy this podcast.

0:53.7

Today's episode has been sponsored by Farity.

0:56.9

Farity is basically my favorite clothing store that exists.

1:00.5

I thought I was finding this undiscovered gem in a tiny little mall in California and Palisades

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Anyway, I went into Ferriety one day, like, freaked out, and I've been

1:11.4

following them ever since. I love their clothes, and so does my husband Kyle. And you can enter Code Zibby, Z-I-B-B-Y, and get 25% off on their website, Farty brand.com. F-A-H-E-R-T-Y-B-R-A-N-D.com. I kind of hate to tell you all about Farity because I kind of liked being in the

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know, like having my own secret stash of clothes, but it's amazing and you will love them,

1:36.7

especially their new cozy fall sweaters, which I've been wearing on Instagram,

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and their pants, which have like the maternity band type thing up top and fit everybody.

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Their shirt dresses, their shirt slash jackets for guys.

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Anyway, they're amazing.

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I have done this now a couple of times and really have to stop.

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