Chin, YZ, EDGE CASE: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 5 September 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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"It's distressing to realize that you're changing. You can see yourself changing in the eyes of the people closest to you." Zibby is joined by YZ Chin to discuss her first novel, Edge Case. While the book is not autobiographical, YZ explains which elements of her own immigration journey inspired parts of the story and shared how obtaining her green card allowed her to finally pursue her dream of writing a novel. The two also talk about how the book portrays issues like mental illness and gender dynamics in the workplace with honesty and compassion.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium.
0:25.0	And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there.
0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:32.9	And my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:34.8	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:40.8	YZ Chin is the author of Edgecase.
0:47.2	She also wrote, Though I Get Home, which won the Louise Maryweather first book prize and the Asian Pacific American Award for Literature Honor Title. Her writing has been published in Harvard Review,
0:52.7	Gulf Coast, some such stories, electric literature, Lit Hub, and elsewhere.
0:57.2	Born and raised in Malaysia, she now lives in New York, where she works as a software engineer.
1:01.3	Welcome, YZ.
1:02.5	Thank you for coming on moms to have time to read bugs to discuss Edgecase, especially as a mom to a nine-month-old baby.
1:08.9	So thank you, even more so.
1:11.0	Definitely relate hard. Thanks for having me.
1:14.0	Okay, Edgecase. Congratulations on this beautiful novel.
1:17.3	Thank you. Would you mind telling listeners what it's about?
1:20.3	Yeah, so it's a story told in first person by a quote-unquote so-called skilled worker immigrant. Her name is Edwina. She is from
1:30.3	Malaysia and she works for a tech startup in New York City. She lives with her husband who is also
1:36.4	a similar, similar shoes, a skilled worker immigrant. They are both on work visas that are
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