Chloe Shaw, WHAT IS A DOG?: A Memoir

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Zibby is joined by author and dog mother Chloe Shaw to discuss her debut memoir, What Is a Dog? Chloe shares her unique literary career as well as the stories of some of the dogs who have impacted her the most. The two also talk about the importance of community in Chloe's life, why this is the perfect book to gift any dog lover, and how the many forms grief may take are all equally valid.

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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.
0:07.1	If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids.
0:12.9	Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do.
0:17.9	All the authors have been on this podcast. Also, check out my TikTok at With Zibby and Tracy, my other podcast, Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy.
0:25.7	Check out Moms Don't Have Time to Write on Medium.
0:28.5	And of course, my new publishing company called Zivie Books.
0:32.3	And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids.
0:36.9	Hi.
0:37.4	Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show.
0:41.1	Chloe Shaw is the author of What Is a Dog, a Memoir. Chloe lives in Connecticut with her husband,
0:45.9	two kids, and two dogs. What Is a Dog is her literary debut. Welcome, Chloe. Thanks so much for coming
0:51.5	on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss what is a dog.
0:55.4	Thank you. I was crying in the first chapter of this book, which is when I know I love a book.
1:02.3	It's so good. You're such a good writer. It's so amazing and emotional and beautiful. So anyway,
1:10.8	bravo to you. Thank you.
1:12.4	Why don't you tell listeners a little about what your book is about? And what inspired you to write
1:16.7	this memoir? So the book is about the six dogs that I've been lucky enough to have in my life,
1:23.7	two of which I still have, to whom I still have. And it really was inspired by an essay I wrote
1:31.0	about Booker, who's on the cover of the book, the dog that my husband had when we met. And he was
1:37.7	kind of the dog that, you know, I had a beloved dog in my childhood who carried me through my whole, really from like five
1:46.6	years old through up to college, like almost the day I left for college. She died. And I'm an only child.
1:53.3	And I lived in a loving but quiet household. You know, there wasn't a lot of shared emotions. And I
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