E.M. Tran, DAUGHTERS OF THE NEW YEAR: A Novel
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
"There are seven billion people on earth. Every single person is alive because someone before them somehow managed to live through the horrible reality through each generation." Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books guest host Julianna Goldman is joined by E.M. Tran to talk about her debut novel, Daughters of the New Year. The two discuss the influence E.M.'s family had on the story, why she wanted to center mother-daughter relationships, and what it was like to research the Vietnam Civil War. E.M. also shares why she decided to write this book backward in time and how Phoebe Bridgers played a huge role in her writing process.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can |
| 0:37.4 | learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com, |
| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
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| 1:13.6 | E.M.Tran is the author of Daughters of the New Year, a novel. This episode is one of our |
| 1:19.0 | special guest-hosted ones by Juliana Goldman, who runs Mamadon. E.M.Tran writes fiction |
| 1:25.2 | and creative nonfiction. Her debut novel, Daughters of the New Year, |
| 1:28.7 | has been reviewed and excerpted in places like The Georgia Review, Joyland Magazine, Prairie Schooner, |
| 1:34.7 | a Harvard review online, and more. She spent an inordinate proportion of her adult life |
| 1:39.0 | working towards an MFA and creative writing from the University of Mississippi and a Ph.D. in |
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