Eileen Garvin, THE MUSIC OF BEES: A Novel
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Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 25 October 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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"I'm so glad that I found my way in because it's the thing that makes me feel the most myself." Eileen Garvin joins Zibby to discuss her debut novel, The Music of Bees, and the serendipitous experiences that inspired it. Eileen shares how her hobby of beekeeping was the best way for her to connect with her late father, why it took her so long to discover she was meant to be a writer, and what inspired the first spark of this book. Read Eileen's essay for Moms Don't Have Time to Write here.
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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. |
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| 0:30.8 | Zivie Books. And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi. Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:40.8 | If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to |
| 0:45.8 | Kids. Here's a little snippet by one of the authors from the anthology. My name is Emily Liebert, |
| 0:52.0 | and I'm thrilled to have contributed to Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids. My essay is called Liebert, and I'm thrilled to have contributed to moms don't have time to have kids. |
| 0:56.6 | My essay is called My Father Immortal, and what I really don't have time for is inauthentic people. |
| 1:03.4 | Eileen Garvin is the author of The Music of Bees. |
| 1:06.2 | She is a beekeeper and writer living in Hood River, Oregon. |
| 1:09.6 | Her memoir, How to Be a Sister, was published |
| 1:11.5 | in 2010. The Music of Bees is her debut novel. Welcome, Eileen. Thanks for coming on Moms. Don't |
| 1:17.0 | have time to read books to discuss the music of Bees. Thanks so much for having me. It's great to be |
| 1:21.8 | here. Would you mind telling listeners what your book is about? I'd be happy to. So the music of bees tells a story of three |
| 1:29.7 | lonely strangers who meet by accident on a beekeeping farm in Oregon. And you could say that |
| 1:35.3 | each one of them has been sort of wounded by life. There's three main characters. Alice Holtzman is |
| 1:41.0 | 44. She's an overworked underappreciated county employee. And Alice has |
| 1:45.7 | recently lost her husband, and she's just sort of reeling from this loss. She's sort of a loner, |
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