Lihi Lapid, ON HER OWN (now in paperback!)
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews bestselling Israeli author, photojournalist, columnist, and activist Lihi Lapid about her latest novel, ON HER OWN (a tense and immersive psychological read about two families in crisis), and her earlier book, WOMAN OF VALOR, which will soon be published for the first time in the U.S. by our company, Zibby Publishing, with a new title, I WANTED TO BE WONDERFUL! This powerful memoir about motherhood, identity, sacrifice, and raising a daughter with severe autism left a lingering effect on Zibby, leading her to acquire it for her publishing house. Lihi talks about her journey from news photographer to writer, her experience as a mother in the public eye (she is married to the former Prime Minister of Israel), and the courage it took to publish such a vulnerable and honest book. The idea to acquire it came up in this episode and now it's coming out October 21st!!!
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Woman of Valor: https://bit.ly/3EbtOqM
On Her Own: https://bit.ly/4jfeuZa
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com |
| 0:38.7 | and follow me on Instagram at Zibi Owens. |
| 0:44.6 | Leah Leapid is the author of On Heron, a novel. |
| 0:48.1 | She is also a contributor, by the way, |
| 0:49.9 | to On Being Jewish Now, our best-selling anthology. |
| 0:53.1 | Lehi Lapid is a best-selling Israeli author, photojournalist, columnist, and activist, with a finger |
| 0:58.9 | on the pulse of contemporary women's issues. |
| 1:01.3 | She lives in Tel Aviv with her husband, Yair Lapid, the former Prime Minister of Israel and |
| 1:06.4 | their two children. |
| 1:07.4 | Welcome, Leah. |
| 1:08.4 | Thank you so much for coming. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm totally booked with Libby. I'm so excited to talk to you |
| 1:12.6 | about so many things. Thank you. Thank you for coming on. Lee, when we did our event together at |
| 1:20.1 | Temple Emmanuel, you talked about your first book, Woman of Valor, and how that had been a personal |
| 1:25.4 | book and one that had really taken off. And then |
| 1:29.4 | you had written your novel. And so I started by reading Woman of Valour and it made me cry. |
| 1:35.0 | I loved it so much. I feel like I need to sit and reread it again just to soak up all of your |
| 1:42.6 | knowledge. And it's like the best book I think |
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