Emma Noyes, GUY'S GIRL

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Zibby welcomes Emma Noyes to discuss her adult debut, GUY’S GIRL, a raw and beautifully written story about twenty-somethings Ginny and Adrian as they navigate adulthood and an intoxicating, unexpected love, set against the backdrop of Ginny’s recovery from anorexia and bulimia while navigating life in New York City. Emma opens up about her personal experience with OCD and eating disorders, revealing that her own recovery inspired her novel. She and Zibby discuss the themes of friendship dynamics, young womanhood, misconceptions around eating disorders, and the importance of seeking professional help.

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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.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop
0:40.3	at one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to
0:47.0	enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in
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 basically
0:56.5	my favorite thing. Enjoy. Emma Noyes is the author of Guy's Girl. Emma told her mother
1:06.8	she wanted to be an author when she was six. She grew up in a suburb outside Chicago and
1:11.1	attended Harvard University, where she studied history and literature. She started her career at a
1:15.8	beer company, but left because she wanted to write about mermaids and witches, eventually publishing
1:20.2	her first YA fantasy series, The Sunkin City. She now lives in Chicago with her Swedish boyfriend
1:25.8	and miniature Pomeranian.
1:29.5	Guy's Girl is her adult debut.
1:30.5	Welcome, Emma.
1:34.0	Thank you so much for coming on Mom's time to read books to discuss Guy's Girl.
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