Esther Chehebar, SISTERS OF FORTUNE: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Zibby interviews debut novelist Esther Chehebar about SISTERS OF FORTUNE, a warm, perceptive, witty, and utterly enjoyable novel about three Syrian Jewish sisters navigating family, tradition, body image, and love in Brooklyn. Esther shares the inspiration behind the story, the unique dynamics of the Syrian Jewish community, and her own path from blogging and essays to fiction. She also opens up about the challenges of sisterhood, the humor and contradictions around food and body image, and the joy she hopes readers take away from the book.
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| 1:16.9 | Esther Chehabar is the author of Sisters of Fortune, a novel. |
| 1:19.9 | She is also the author of the children's book, I Share My Name. |
| 1:21.2 | This is her first novel. |
| 1:22.3 | Welcome, Esther. |
| 1:28.9 | Thank you so much for coming on Totally Booked with Zibi to talk about your debut novel, Sisters of Fortune. Congratulations. |
| 1:32.6 | Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:36.8 | It's my pleasure. Yes. I feel like it was so long ago when we first met, |
| 1:42.3 | thanks to Corey Adjmi, and you were like, I have this book coming. And now, like, here it is. |
| 1:47.1 | So exciting. I feel the exact same way. i cannot believe that we're almost a week away from pub and yeah i remember meeting you that day and being like one day we'll |
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