Claire Gibson, BEYOND THE POINT

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Listen to debut novelist and bright, shining talent, Claire Gibson, as she discusses the road to BEYOND THE POINT. This novel of female friendships that began at the West Point Military Academy tackles faith, service, love, family, the military and so much more. Claire is delightful, open, honest and relatable, sharing some of her dating foibles, her interviews with previous cadets, her religious grounding and how she crafted her cinematic, impactful novel.

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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.
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0:34.7	today with claire gibson claire is a writer based in nashville, Tennessee, born and raised at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
0:41.7	Claire went on to study political science and Asian studies at Furman University, where she was recruited by Teach for America to be a middle school history instructor.
0:49.0	In 2012, she left the classroom to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a writer.
0:53.6	Her work has appeared in the
0:54.6	Washington Post, the Tennessean, Marie Claire, Entrepreneur Magazine, and many others. Beyond the
0:59.5	Point is her debut novel coming out April 2nd. Welcome, Claire.
1:03.2	That's right. Hi. Thank you so much for having me. Oh, this is such a dream. So I have to say,
1:08.4	Claire and I met by happenstands at Books or Magic bookstore in Brooklyn
1:12.9	when we were both there to see John Kenny and Courtney Mom talk. And I recognize Claire from
1:18.3	Instagram and my husband introduced us. It was ridiculous. It's nice to be connected and everything.
1:24.2	No kidding. I mean, I was just there that night from Nashville for that one night, and I popped into Books
1:29.0	Our Magic, and then there you were, and now here I am sitting in your house.
1:32.6	It's crazy.
1:33.2	That's the gift of book people.
1:36.8	Love it.
1:38.0	So beyond the point, which, as I've told you, I truly loved, could not put down, read like a movie, like went so fast and so
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