Laura Diamond, SHELTER US: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Special re-release: In support of authors who have lost their homes in the tragic LA fires, we will be resharing their podcast episodes.
Laura Nicole Diamond joins to discuss her 2015 bestselling novel, SHELTER US, and how it changed her life. Laura tells Zibby about jumping from working as a civil rights lawyer to being a novelist, as well as what she did to hold herself to the commitment of writing it. Laura also shares how including a Guatemalan character in the novel led her family to foster a young Guatemalan refugee seeking asylum, what she learned from her experience volunteering with the houseless community in LA, and why she’s currently working on a memoir.
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| 1:11.4 | Laura Nicole Diamond is the author of Shelter Us, a novel. |
| 1:15.0 | She's the award-winning author of not only Shelter Us, but Dance With Me, a memoir of her grandmother, |
| 1:20.6 | and the editor of the anthology, Deliver Me, True Confessions of Motherhood. |
| 1:24.5 | She writes about life, family, and trying to make sense of it all on her blog, |
| 1:33.9 | lauracoldiamond.com, and does it work on a memoir and fostering a teenage asylum seeker on the path to citizenship, which also has prompted her own journey to become an asylum |
| 1:39.1 | lawyer, which we talked about. She and her husband raised their two sons in the small town in a |
| 1:43.6 | big city where Laura |
| 1:44.5 | grew up and where her parents and sisters still live, though she did leave for various |
| 1:48.0 | adventures of her own, including to Venice Beach, Spain, and some epic American road trips. |
| 1:52.9 | She can hardly believe that her nest is almost empty. Welcome, Laura. Thanks so much for coming |
| 1:58.0 | on moms don't have time to Read Books to discuss Shelter Us. |
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