Jessica George, MAAME: A Novel
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews debut author Jessica George about Maame, which is a B&N Discover Pick, a Book of the Month pick, a #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick, and will be adapted into a TV series by Jenna! Maame is a charming, vividly drawn, and poignant coming-of-age tale about a twenty-something “later bloomer" navigating online dating, a nightmarish job, grief, racism, an overbearing mother, and a father who suffers from advanced stage Parkinson’s. Jessica talks about her journey to becoming a writer, analyzes her protagonist and her incredibly flawed but hilarious family, and shares how her experiences caring for her late father, who also had Parkinson’s, inspired this story. She also shares the details of her next project and her best advice for aspiring writers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can |
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| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
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| 0:58.4 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Jessica George is the author of Mame, a novel. |
| 1:02.0 | Jessica was born and raised in London to Ghanaian parents and studied English literature |
| 1:06.2 | at the University of Sheffield. |
| 1:07.7 | After working at a literary agency and a theater, she landed a job in the |
| 1:11.4 | editorial department of Bloomsbury, UK. Mame is her first novel, and it's spelled M-A-A-A-M-E, and it is not |
| 1:18.9 | pronounced maim as I found out in this podcast. Welcome, Jessica. Thank you so much for coming on |
| 1:24.1 | Momsdon't have time to read Bex to discuss MAME novels. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:28.6 | Okay, can you please tell listeners what MAME is about? Yeah, so it follows 20-something Maddie |
| 1:35.5 | Wright, who I like to call a later bloomer rather than a late bloomer just because she's doing |
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