Lea Geller, THE TRUTH AND OTHER HIDDEN THINGS: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 25 July 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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"People always ask: 'How do you find the time to write?' You have to treat it like a job even if you're not getting paid to do it." Author and self-proclaimed recovering lawyer Lea Geller says the blog she started over ten years ago helped her feel less miserable and led to her successful career as a writer. The two discuss Lea's latest novel, The Truth and Other Hidden Things, as well as the lack of creativity they both felt in the depths of quarantine.

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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.
0:25.0	And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there.
0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:32.9	And my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:34.8	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.7	Lee Geller is the author of the novel, The Truth, and Other Things. Lee is the recipient of the 2019 Catherine
0:44.8	Gerfine Writing Fellowship at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in New York with her husband and
0:49.6	five children, for whom she frequently wakes up and makes five separate breakfasts. Lee began her
0:55.8	writing career by blogging about her adventures in the trenches of parenting and got the idea for
1:00.7	her first novel, Trophy Life, when her two sons were in middle school. Her new novel is The Truth
1:06.0	and Other Hidden Things. When Lee is not writing and eavesdropping on her children, she can be
1:10.4	found running, drinking diner coffee, and occasionally teaching middle school English. She is a graduate of Columbia University and Stanford Law School. Welcome, Lee. Thanks so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss the truth and other hidden things. And by the way, I feel like I'm wearing the shirt to match your book cover. You know. Very well done. Thank you.
1:28.2	Well done.
1:28.9	Thanks.
1:31.6	Would you mind telling listeners what your book is about?
1:43.5	My book is about a woman who all in one day discovers that her husband hasn't gotten tenure at their city university and that in her mid-40s with two tween and teenage kids, I guess.
1:45.6	Her IUD has failed and she's pregnant.
1:51.9	And so this begins sort of her journey into an unexpected pregnancy and out of this city up to Dutchess County where her husband gets a new job. I love how they considered moving to
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