Elysha Chang, A QUITTER'S PARADISE

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Guest host Julie Chavez interviews debut author Elysha Chang about A Quitter’s Paradise, a darkly humorous and compulsively readable book (and the first one from Sarah Jessica Parker’s SJP Lit!) about a young woman who tries to ignore her mother’s death even as unearthed family secrets become increasingly inextricable from her own. Elysha talks about her job teaching creative writing to university students, her frustrations with her own protagonist and book (it took her six years to write!), and the story behind her incredible book title.

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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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0:53.3	2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is
0:56.1	basically my favorite thing. Enjoy.
1:03.2	Alicia Chang is the author of A Quitter's Paradise. This episode was guest-hosted by
1:08.2	Julie Chavez, a Zibi Books author of the upcoming memoir,
1:12.7	Everyone but Myself. She's also the host of the podcast, Ask a Librarian.
1:17.3	Alicia's writing has appeared in Bodega Mag, Fence, Chiqu the Rumpus, and other publications.
1:22.8	An instructor of creative writing, Alicia has taught fiction workshops and other courses at Blue Stoop,
1:27.6	Kelly Writers House, Villanova University, and University of Pennsylvania. She has received
1:31.5	fellowships and support from the Center for Fiction, Jerome Foundation, Kundiman,
1:35.8	Kim L. Harding-Nelson Center, Swatch Art Residency in Shanghai, Monson Arts, and Willapa Bay Air.
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