Katherine Lin, YOU CAN'T STAY HERE FOREVER
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Katherine Lin delves into her newest novel, which explores young widow Ellie Huang's journey through loss, and her escape to the French Riviera with her best friend Mable. The narrative sheds light on complex female friendships and mother-daughter dynamics, influenced by Katherine's own experiences. The setting, Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, adds a touch of escapism while revealing the characters' inner demons. Katherine also touches on handling rejection in the literary world, highlighting the grit required for aspiring authors. Through humor and insightful discussions, Katherine and Zibby explore the book's nuanced portrayals of relationships and self-discovery.
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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. |
| 0:14.9 | I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir. |
| 0:21.9 | Our books are already out now. |
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| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop |
| 0:40.3 | at one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to |
| 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 it. Catherine Lynn is the author of You Can't Stay Here Forever, |
| 1:06.2 | a novel. Catherine is an attorney and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area and a graduate |
| 1:10.7 | of Northwestern University and Stanford Law School. You Can't Stay Here Forever is her debut novel. Welcome, Catherine. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books. To discuss you can't stay here forever a novel. I'm so excited to be here. Thank you so much. Yay. Okay. Can you start by telling listeners what your book is about? |
| 1:29.4 | Sure. So 28-year-old Ellie Huang gets basically the worst news that you can imagine, which is she |
| 1:36.5 | finds out that her husband is killed in a car crash and then that he was cheating on her with one |
| 1:42.2 | of her colleagues at her San Francisco law firm. |
| 1:45.1 | So in the midst of all this tragedy, in a rare act of impulse, she uses his life insurance money |
| 1:51.3 | and runs away to the south of France with her best friend, Mabel. And they go to this really |
| 1:57.3 | famous real-life hotel called Hotel DuCap Eden Rock, which many might recognize |
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