Caroline Leavitt, DAYS OF WONDER
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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New York Times bestselling author Caroline Leavitt joins Zibby to discuss DAYS OF WONDER, a gripping drama about mothers and daughters, guilt and innocence, and the lengths we go for love. Caroline delves into her novel’s intricate storyline, which follows the afterlives of two young lovers torn apart by a crime, inspired by a real-life experience she had with a friend with a secretive past. She also discusses the themes of forgiveness, identity, and the search for truth. Finally, she shares personal anecdotes about her interactions with the Upper East Side elite, her struggles with adoption, the loss of a child, and her platform for supporting fellow authors, The Mighty Blaze.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. |
| 0:08.1 | I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank. |
| 0:14.2 | I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more. Learn more |
| 0:22.2 | at Zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at Zivie Readers. |
| 0:31.3 | Caroline Levitt is the author of Days of Wonder, a novel. Caroline is the New York Times and USA Today |
| 0:36.9 | bestselling author of Days of |
| 0:38.4 | Wonder, with or without you, cruel, beautiful world. Is this tomorrow? Pictures of you, Girls in |
| 0:44.2 | Trouble, coming back to me, living other lives into thin air, family, jealousies, lifelines, |
| 0:49.7 | meeting Razzie Halfway. F.I, her book, Pictures of You. We have a book coming out from Zibby Books Publishing, and it's also called Pictures of You. And it was so nice, I emailed Caroline, and I was like, Hey, Caroline, how do you feel about us using this title? Because your book came out so long ago and blah, blah, blah. And she was like, oh, anything you need. Anyway, she was the sweetest and most amazing, gracious woman ever, and I adore her. |
| 1:13.0 | Many of Caroline's titles were optioned for film, translated into different languages, |
| 1:16.9 | and condensed in magazines. Many of her titles were Best Books of the Year and Indy Next |
| 1:21.3 | Picks. A New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, she was also shortlisted for the main |
| 1:25.7 | reader's prize, and was a Goldenberg Fiction |
| 1:28.0 | Prize winner. She recently won an award from the Mid-Atlantic Arts for portions of her next |
| 1:32.1 | novel, The Inseparables. With Her Without You was a Good Morning America pick online, a People |
| 1:36.7 | magazine and AARP best book, and a public library association buzzed book. Caroline was the founder |
| 1:42.3 | of the Nothing is Canceled virtual book tour, an initiative |
| 1:45.2 | she started when the pandemic began. It quickly grew, and she and novelist Jenna Bloom co-founded |
| 1:49.9 | a mighty blaze, which promotes independent bookstores, authors who lost their tours, and helps readers. |
| 1:55.0 | The blaze has hosted such luminaries as John Irving, George Saunders, Elizabeth Strout, |
| 1:59.5 | Lauren Groff, and more more like me, and now |
| 2:01.8 | employs over 30 passionate volunteers. Caroline lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, New York's |
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