Corie Adjmi, THE MARRIAGE BOX

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🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Guest host Julie Chavez interviews award-winning author and repeat MDHTTRB guest Corie Adjmi about The Marriage Box, a fascinating coming-of-age novel about a young Jewish Syrian girl whose family moves back to the Orthodox community, forcing her to reckon with new customs–like getting married at 18! After revealing the story was inspired by her own life experiences, Corie describes the baby steps she took over twenty years to get this book out into the world. The two also discuss the “marriage box”, teenagers, music, and perfectionism.

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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.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop
0:40.3	at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of
0:47.9	our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.
0:56.1	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy.
1:03.2	Corey Ajmi is the author of The Marriage Box. And this episode is guest hosted by Julie Chavez,
1:10.4	author of the upcoming memoir, Everyone but
1:13.6	myself, and host of Ask a Librarian, The Podcast.
1:18.4	Corey is the author of the novel The Marriage Box, which was named a must-read new book on
1:22.5	Katie Couric Media.
1:23.9	Corey's short story collection, Life and Other Shortcomings, won an International book award, an I-B-P-A-B-A-B-Franclin Award, and an American Fiction Award.
1:32.6	Her prize-winning essays and short stories have appeared in dozens of journals and magazines, including HuffPost, North American Review, Indiana Review, Medium, Mother Well, and Kfeller.
1:41.2	When she is not writing, Corey does volunteer work, cooks, draws, bikes,
1:44.4	and hikes. She and her husband have five children and a number of grandchildren with more on the
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