Jodi Picoult, WISH YOU WERE HERE: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Although Jodi Picoult is the bestselling author of 26 novels which have collectively sold over 40 million copies, the pandemic affected her just like everyone else. After interviews with frontline workers, Covid-19 survivors, and a man who accidentally got trapped on the Galapagos Islands in March 2020, Jodi wrote Wish You Were Here, her take on a pandemic book. She joined Zibby to talk about the horrific stories she heard through her interviews, which projects she has resumed working on, and what questions she hopes all readers will ask themselves as we begin to emerge out from Covid-19's shadow.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
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0:32.3	And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids.
0:36.9	Hi.
0:37.4	Hi. Hi.
0:37.8	Hello.
0:38.4	Enjoy the show.
0:40.7	Jody Picoe is the author of Wish You Are Here.
0:43.8	She is the number one New York Times bestselling author of 27 novels, including the book
0:49.3	of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, The Storyteller, Lone Wolf, Sing You Home, leaving time, the storyteller, lone wolf, sing you home,
0:56.1	house rules, handle with care, change of heart, and my sister's keeper, and with daughter Samantha Van Lear,
1:02.3	two young adult novels between the lines and off the page. Jody lives in New Hampshire,
1:07.5	and I wonder if she can even remember all the names of her 27 novels. I wish I had
1:12.1	asked. Welcome, Jody. Thank you so much for coming on Momsdon. Have Time to read books to discuss
1:16.9	Wish You Were Here. Thanks for having me. It's my pleasure. Wow, this book was so good and also
1:23.9	so intense on the heels of COVID and all the details.
1:28.7	And oh, my God, I just feel like I was reliving the whole thing.
1:32.2	Tell me, I mean, you must have written this.
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