Mitch Albom, THE STRANGER IN THE LIFEBOAT: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
"Do we recognize when our prayers are being answered if it doesn't come in the form that we wanted?" Mitch Albom, bestselling author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven, returns to talk with Zibby about his latest novel, The Stranger in the Lifeboat, and why he wanted a thriller about God lost at sea. The two also discuss the many lessons we learn as we age, what they would ask God if he was on the podcast, and how the ways that Mitch's faith has changed throughout his life shaped the big conversations had in the novel.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.1 | If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids. |
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| 0:26.2 | moms don't have time to write on medium. And of course, my new publishing company called Zivvy |
| 0:31.3 | books. And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi. Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:40.6 | If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to |
| 0:45.6 | Kids. Here's a little snippet by one of the authors from the anthology. My name is Carla Nomburg, |
| 0:52.3 | and I'm thrilled to have contributed to Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids. My essay is called Nomburg, and I'm thrilled to have contributed to moms don't have time to have kids. |
| 0:56.7 | My essay is called Night Breathing, and what I really don't have time for is sleep. |
| 1:02.2 | Mitch Album is the author of The Stranger in the Lifeboat. |
| 1:05.1 | He's also the author of numerous books, a fiction and nonfiction, which have collectively sold, wait for it, more than |
| 1:11.7 | 45 million copies in 47 languages worldwide. He has written seven number one New York Times |
| 1:19.3 | bestsellers, including Tuesdays with Mori, the bestselling memoir of all time, which topped |
| 1:24.4 | the list for four straight years. Also, award-winning TV, films, stage |
| 1:29.1 | plays, screenplays, a nationally syndicated newspaper column, and a musical. I mean, what can he not do? |
| 1:34.5 | His most recent work is a return to nonfiction with a New York Times bestseller Finding |
| 1:38.9 | Chica, a memoir about a young Haitian orphan who short life would forever change Halvom's |
| 1:43.8 | heart, which, |
| 1:44.4 | by the way, I interviewed him about and he was crying and you should go back and listen to that |
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