Laurie Frankel, FAMILY FAMILY

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Zibby speaks to New York Times bestselling author Laurie Frankel about FAMILY FAMILY, a propulsive, funny, and strikingly tender novel about a famous actress and adoptive mother who finds herself in trouble when she criticizes the new movie she’s in.. because of its negative portrayal of adoption. Laurie explains why she is motivated to challenge prevailing adoption narratives and why it is so important to represent all kinds of adoptive families. She and Zibby also talk about the book's social media and cancel culture aspects, and then Laurie reflects on her writing journey (it all started with Shakespeare). She also shares her book recommendations and best advice for aspiring writers.

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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.
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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. Lorry Frankel is the author of Family Family, a novel.
1:07.1	Lori is the New York Times bestselling award-winning author of novels such as The Atlas of Love,
1:11.6	Goodbye for Now, and the Reese's Book Club pick, This Is How It Always Is.
1:16.2	Lori lives in Seattle with her husband, daughter, and border collie.
1:18.9	She makes good soup.
1:20.7	I have to say, I absolutely loved this book, Family Family.
1:24.2	It's one of my top books so far of the year.
1:26.8	Welcome, Lori. Thanks for coming on
1:28.4	Mom Stone. Have time to read books to discuss family family. I'll just say it that way. Thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah. I'm thrilled and I'm thrilled to be here and I appreciate so much you're doing this. Of course. Okay. As I was just saying, I'm like obsessed with this book. I love the voice. I love all of it. It's so original. Oh my gosh. It just, it's hilarious. Even all the like malapropisms, malaprop. I mean, I can't even say that way. I mean, just like all these funny things you do. It's like all the way through. It's so, it's just so first rate. I don't know. I loved it. Okay, tell listeners what family family is about.
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