Jennifer Weiner, THAT SUMMER: A Novel
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Bestselling author Jennifer Weiner joined Zibby's Virtual Book Club to talk about her latest novel, That Summer. Jennifer shares how she was inspired to write her recent trilogy after receiving another Jennifer Weiner's emails and why she wanted to combine that story with the #MeToo movement. She also answers questions from readers about her father, raising two book-loving daughters, and how she uses fiction to work through things as they unfold in her life. Join Zibby's Virtual Book Club today!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
| 0:12.2 | which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology. |
| 0:16.8 | All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research. |
| 0:20.4 | And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms't have time to write a new publication on Medium. And we're accepting submissions. So please send your personal essays there. And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. And my website is Zibby Owens.com. Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. Hello. Hi. How are you? |
| 0:40.3 | I'm good. How are you? I'm good. You're in your closet, I see. I'm in my closet. |
| 0:45.3 | This is like the full on in her shoes moment. Now we're like literally in your, well, I have to say |
| 0:54.1 | that in this crowd here, many people want to be your close friend. |
| 0:58.1 | So I don't know if you have a party that needs bodies to fill or anything, but many people |
| 1:04.1 | feel they actually already are your good friends, but you just don't know them yet. |
| 1:08.0 | So here they are. |
| 1:09.5 | That's so nice. |
| 1:10.7 | Hello. Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for |
| 1:13.3 | having me. Thank you for reading that summer. We were just finishing discussing which characters |
| 1:18.5 | from that summer are going to be in your next book. Can you share that? Yes. Okay. So the final book in |
| 1:27.2 | what I am very ostentatiously referring to as my Cape Cod trilogy is going to be called the last summer. It's going to be out next year. And in that summer, we meet Veronica and Sam and Sarah, the woman and the kids for whom Diana is working with whom Diana is working. |
| 1:47.8 | So we meet them in the 80s when the kids are little, and we're going to see them in the present day. |
| 1:53.3 | So it's basically 40 years later. The kids are all grown up. They have spouses and children and |
| 1:59.8 | problems of their own. Veronica is in her 70s and she's |
| 2:04.4 | getting ready to finally put this big house on the market because all of her fond hopes of her |
| 2:10.1 | children and grandchildren coming to visit and spending the summers with her have not come to |
| 2:15.1 | pass. And so she's getting ready to say goodbye. And her stepdaughter |
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