Kristan Higgins, PACK UP THE MOON: A Novel
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Kristan Higgins, the bestselling author of twenty-one books, joins Zibby to discuss her latest novel Pack Up the Moon. Kristan shares how her personal experience with grief has shaped her entire life — and, notably, her marriage — and inspired a number of her stories, including this one. She also tells Zibby about how she became a writer when she realized that her love for reading and romantic comedies could be coupled to tell the stories of normal people. Read Kristan's essay "Preparing for Widowhood" on Moms Don't Have Time to Write here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
| 0:12.2 | which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology. |
| 0:16.8 | All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research. |
| 0:20.4 | And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium. And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there. And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. And my website is Zibby Owens.com. Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. Kristen Higgins is the author |
| 0:39.3 | of Pack Up the Moon. She's also the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than |
| 0:44.1 | 20 novels, which have been translated into more than two dozen languages and have sold millions |
| 0:48.5 | of copies worldwide. Her two most recent novels were each selected as People Magazine's pick of the |
| 0:53.3 | week. Her books have received many awards and accolades, and she is a six-time nominee for the Kirkus Prize for Best Work of Fiction. Kristen is also a co-host of the Crappy Friends podcast, which discusses the often complex dynamics of female friendships with her friend and fellow writer Joss Day. Higgins lives in Connecticut with her family. |
| 1:11.7 | Welcome, Kristen. |
| 1:13.7 | Thank you so much for coming on moms. |
| 1:17.8 | Don't have time to read books to discuss Pack Up the Moon and a million other things. |
| 1:20.1 | It's so nice to be here. |
| 1:21.9 | So nice to have you. |
| 1:24.6 | Well, let's start with your most recent book. |
| 1:28.8 | Can you please tell listeners what Pack Up the Moon is about? |
| 1:37.8 | Pack Up the Moon is the story of how to be married, how to take care of your spouse, how to prepare for death. It's the story of Lauren and Josh Park, newlywed couple. |
| 1:44.5 | They have everything going for them. |
| 1:46.6 | Josh is this sort of super genius on the spectrum medical device engineer. |
| 1:52.8 | And he lives this very, like, closed in life. |
| 1:56.4 | He works for himself. |
| 1:57.8 | He has like three people that he loves in the world. |
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