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excited to be here today with jamy brenner jamie is the author of many books, including The Husband Hour, The Wedding Sisters, The Forever Summer, which was a bestseller, and her most recent novel, Drawing Home, a graduate of George Washington University in D.C. Jamie worked at Harper-Collins, Barnes & Noble, and Vogue, and currently lives in New York City. So welcome to Jimmy. Thank you for having me, Zibi.

I'm very excited to be here. I'm a fan. And I have to say, I can't believe you've been doing this for just a year because it seems like the amount of people you've spoken to and how much you've done for books. It seems like this has always been around. So thank you. And we need more of this. So a lot of writers are not enough places to really talk about books.

I... he's been around. So thank you. And we need more of this. So a lot of writers are not enough places

to really talk about books. I love it. I'm as you know, I'm like, I do this for fun. I mean,

I really do. I love it. So it's all like a dream come true for me to be able to like spend my

day sitting here talking to authors and reading books. And I mean, it's like so fun.

So anyway, I'm glad other people are benefiting from my selfish joy.

They are.

Yes.

That's, yes.

So drawing home, I read the whole thing nonstop on an airplane.

Like could not put it down, plowed through, loved.

It was so good.

And like so visual. Like,

I just felt like it was better than all the other people on the plane watching movies.

I mean, I was, like, so in it. So tell listeners a little bit about what Drawing Home is about and how you came up with the idea for the book. Okay, so Drawing Home is the story of a woman

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