Jennifer Lang, LANDED: A Yogi's Memoir in Pieces & Poses

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Zibby chats with author Jennifer Lang about her lyrical, poignant, and funny memoir, LANDED: A Yogi’s Memoir in Pieces & Poses. Jennifer describes how her book is a reckoning—both on and off the yoga mat—with her adopted country of Israel, her cross-cultural marriage to a Frenchman, her merciless midlife hormones, and her imminent empty next. She opens up about the emotional toll of navigating home and belonging and also about releasing a book amid rising antisemitism and the ongoing war.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive
0:24.0	look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't
0:29.3	have to.
0:30.3	Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day.
0:36.2	For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram
0:40.2	at Zibby Owens. Jennifer Lang is the author of Landed, a yogi's memoir in pieces and poses.
0:49.4	Jennifer is a San Francisco Bay Area transplant in Tel Aviv. In September 2023, she gave birth to her first book,
0:56.4	Places We Left Behind, a memoir in miniature. In October 24, she welcomed, landed, a yogi's
1:03.1	memoir in pieces and poses into a different world. Her writing focuses on identity, voice, faith,
1:09.6	belonging, and home. Graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, voice, faith, belonging, and home.
1:15.8	Graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, Jennifer was an assistant editor at Brevity Journal.
1:21.2	You can read more at www.org.orgiawriters Studio.com.
1:25.4	Welcome, Jennifer. Thanks so much for coming on Totally Booked with Zivie to talk about landed a yogi's memoir in pieces and poses. Congratulations.
1:30.6	Thank you for having me. Oh, it's my pleasure. I found this book interesting on so many levels.
1:35.8	The structure and form of it, the way that you use the page and symbols and, you know, short chapters and just the way that you tell the story,
1:46.2	interweaving timelines, all of it in the way that you do it, but also the content of what
1:52.5	you're sharing and how in these brief little moments you are sharing endless amounts
1:57.9	about your marriage, your backgrounds, your mothering, Israel. There's just so much in
2:04.4	here. And it was a very powerful read. So congratulations. Thank you. Why don't you do a better job
2:10.9	of explaining sort of what the book is about and what made you write it in the way that you did?
2:16.3	Sure. So really, truly, I'm very grateful for you having me here and for letting me speak about this book.
2:23.4	So it's a hard book to put into this world.
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