Emily Itami, FAULT LINES: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Debut novelist Emily Itami joins Zibby to talk about her book, Fault Lines, which was inspired in part by her own alternating perceptions of motherhood in Tokyo and London. The two discuss the way women's identities seem to change almost immediately after having children, what it was like for Emily to publish her first novel during the pandemic, and why her husband likes to remind everyone that this story is a work of fiction.

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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.
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0:31.3	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.
0:40.9	Emily Atami is the author of Fault Lines, a novel.
0:44.0	Emily grew up in Tokyo and returned there to live when her children were young.
0:47.3	She now lives in London.
0:49.1	She has been published widely as freelance journalist and travel writer.
0:53.3	This is her first novel. But by the way, I'm sure
0:56.1	this will not be her last. And if I were picking stocks on authors, I would pick Emily's as one to
1:02.0	watch. Welcome, Emily. Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to
1:06.5	discuss fault lines. Thank you so much for having me. I'm very happy to be here. I loved your novel. It was so
1:13.7	great. There are so many things I liked about it. In fact, so many of the things that I sort of in
1:18.3	the back of my head say are like the things you should do to make a novel really good.
1:22.9	You know, like every opening sentence of a chapter, like chapter like because completely attention grabbing the chapters
1:29.0	weren't too long uh you get totally invested in the characters that has a strong sense of place like
1:34.3	check check check check you know it had like all it checked all the boxes so anyway it was great
1:38.6	just wanted you to know that thank you very much that's really kind of you that makes me really
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