Kate Christensen, WELCOME HOME, STRANGER
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author Kate Christensen joins Zibby to discuss WELCOME HOME, STRANGER, a lively, sophisticated, and emotionally resonant novel about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family. Kate discusses her protagonist's journey through postmenopausal life, environmental gloom (she’s an environmental journalist with way too much knowledge about the food on her plate...), and the death of her problematic mother. She and Zibby also talk about anxiety (do all novelists have it?) and aging (61 is Kate’s favorite age she’s ever been!).
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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. |
| 0:06.7 | This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes. |
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| 0:47.0 | enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in |
| 0:53.3 | 2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically |
| 0:56.5 | my favorite thing. Enjoy. Hey, Christensen, is the author of Welcome Home Stranger, a novel. |
| 1:07.3 | This episode is a little bit shorter than usual because we had an issue with the time and I can't remember what else, but we were determined to fit it in, even though it was short and sweet. This is really one of my favorite books, so please listen. Kate Christensen is the author of eight novels, most recently Welcome Home Stranger. Her fourth novel, The Great Man, won the 2008 Penn Faulkner Award for Fiction. She has also published two |
| 1:28.4 | food-centric memoirs, Blue Plate Special, and How to Cook a Moose, which won the 2016 |
| 1:33.5 | Main Literary Award for Memoir. Her essays, food writing, reviews, and stories have appeared |
| 1:38.3 | in a wide variety of publications and anthologies. She currently writes a monthly food column for |
| 1:42.8 | Frenchly called Boof. She lives with her |
| 1:45.5 | husband and their two dogs in Tallas, New Mexico. Hi, Kate. Thanks so much for coming on. |
| 1:50.0 | Momsdon have time to read books to discuss Welcome Home Stranger. I'm so happy to be here. Thank you. |
| 1:55.8 | Oh, you're welcome. I love this book so much. The way you write, the way you write about family, |
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