Minisode: An Interview with "No Land to Light On" Author Yara Zgheib

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Meredith Schwartz

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🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Today’s spoiler-free minisode includes a conversation between Kaytee and author Yara Zgheib. Yara is the author of No Land to Light On, a heartbreaking and heart-mending love story of immigration and parenthood and leaving your heart across the ocean. This book was an Indie Press List pick for March from An Unlikely Story. Tune into my conversation with Yara to hear about:

Writing as therapy
Turning real world events into novel
The humanity in every story
Her personal connections to this story
Travel and privilege
How Ph.D.s are so useful
Her favorite characters
And of course: a book she wants to press into your hands.

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No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib

The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

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0:00.0	I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom before living in New Mexico, and today I'm excited
0:18.9	to share with you my interview with Yara Zigeib, the author of the poignant new release
0:24.3	No Land to Light On.
0:25.5	This mini-sode is a little different than ones we've done in the past.
0:28.5	I sat down with Yara and some of our patrons or bookish friends of the show for about
0:32.8	an hour to chat about her book and everything else in her life.
0:36.7	We intentionally kept the first chunk of the discussion spoiler free so that we could
0:40.4	turn it into this mini-sode today.
0:42.4	Bookish friends this morning are also receiving the full discussion including the spoilers
0:46.2	and we're able to join in the chat for the live interview and ask questions afterward.
0:50.2	It ended up being a wonderful conversation.
0:52.8	For now though, I'd love to tell you a little bit more about Yara before we get to the
0:56.6	interview.
0:57.6	Yara Zigeib is the author of Two Novels.
1:00.4	No Land to Light On and the girls at 17 Swan Street.
1:03.8	She is a reader, writer, traveler, and lover of art and jazz.
1:08.1	She was born in Beirut and has left pieces of her heart all over the world.
1:11.9	She has a PhD, publishes essays every Thursday on her blog, and is a mom to young twins.
1:17.9	I hope you love this conversation with her today and I hope you consider picking
1:22.4	up her book and diving into this amazing story about Hadi and Sama in No Land to Light
1:28.8	On.
1:29.8	Yara, thank you so much for joining us here today for this little buddy rediscussion of
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