Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.

I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.

Our books are already out now.

You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.

And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle

features.

That's at Zibbymag.com.

We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.

And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop

at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of

our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.

And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Dupa Farad Derajan is the author of late bloomers, a novel.

Dupa lives in Atlanta with her husband and two children. She is a legal

academic and a graduate of Yale Law School. She grew up in Texas and received her BA from the

University of Texas at Austin. Her short fiction has appeared in the Georgia Review, and her

legal scholarship has appeared in the Yale Law Journal and many other publications. Late Blooms is her

first novel. Welcome, Deepa. Thank you so much for

coming on Mom's Don't have time to read books to discuss Late Bloomer's, your novel. Thanks so much for

having me. I'm so excited to be here. Well, it's always fun talking about dating later in life. Why not? Let's go

right into it. So tell listeners about both how you came as a former lawyer,

or maybe you still are a lawyer, to write a book. Former, current? I'm still a law professor,

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