Etaf Rum, EVIL EYE

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Zibby interviews New York Times bestselling author Etaf Rum about Evil Eye, a striking exploration of the expectations of a Palestinian-American woman, inter-generational trauma, and the ways our unresolved pasts affect our presents. Etaf shares how a lack of Palestinian-American representation on bookshelves inspired her to write fiction that pulls from her own experiences. She also talks about juggling writing, teaching, and motherhood; her experiences with impostor syndrome and depression during COVID; and her bookstore in North Carolina!

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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.
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0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
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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
0:56.1	basically my favorite thing. Enjoy it.
1:03.2	Itaf Rum is the author of Evil Eye, a novel.
1:07.0	Etaf was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, by Palestinian immigrants. She has taught English literature in North Carolina, where she lives with her two children.
1:15.1	Itaf also runs the Instagram account at Books and Beans and is a Book of the Month
1:19.1	Club ambassador.
1:20.3	Welcome, Itaf.
1:21.3	Thank you so much for coming on moms.
1:23.5	Mons don't have time to read books.
1:24.9	I can't even pronounce my own show, but that's fine to discuss a
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