Jess Keefe, THIRTY-THOUSAND STEPS: A Memoir of Sprinting Toward Life After Loss
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews author Jess Keefe about Thirty-Thousand Steps: A Memoir of Sprinting Toward Life After Loss, a powerful and transformative memoir about grieving the loss of a brother and numbing the pain by training for a marathon. Jess describes her relationship with her younger brother, his drug addiction, and the horror of finding him while he died of an overdose. She also talks about her maddening search for answers (why him?), her decision to start running marathons, and the challenge of putting the entire experience on paper.
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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. |
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| 1:03.4 | Jess Keefe is the author of 30,000 Steps, a memoir of sprinting toward life after loss. |
| 1:08.8 | Jess is a writer, editor, and advocate. Her writing has been |
| 1:11.7 | published by Teen Vogue, Half Post, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Runner's World, and more. She has |
| 1:16.5 | worked with national and local addiction nonprofits to increase nalaxone availability and improved |
| 1:21.9 | treatment standards. She currently lives in Richmond, Virginia. Welcome, Jess. Thank you so much |
| 1:26.7 | for coming on Mom Moms Don't |
| 1:27.7 | have time to read books to discuss 30,000 steps. You are, you're absolutely beautiful, |
| 1:33.2 | amazing, poignant, deep, awesome memoir. Thank you so much. I'm delighted to be here. Thank you for |
| 1:39.5 | having me. Oh my gosh. Your description, I like, I read, I don't know if I can, can I talk about what happens in the beginning because I feel like it's putting open. |
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