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at Zibby Owens. I interviewed Annie Katz at Totally Booked Live at the Whitby. Her novel is Haven,

and she's a writer, photographer and teacher, born on the south shore of Long Island, New York, and lives in Brooklyn. And, FYI, she was one of my kids' teachers. So this is a

particular joy for me to spotlight her amazing work of her second book. Welcome to Totally Book Live, so excited to be here with Annie Katz today to discuss her novel, Haven. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to be here. Yay. I have to reveal that you are my son's teacher. What, fourth grade? Third grade. Third grade. Third grade. Third grade. Third grade. And I'm not just saying this because I'm here, but truly one of my favorite students ever. She's not a surprise to. She is totally just saying that. I'm totally not just saying that. He was so excited that I was interviewing you today. Anyway, so anyway. But thank God. The book was so good anyway. and you are actually we're here at this totally book live day

the only novel represented to do.

I noticed that.

Yeah.

So congrats on that.

Thank you.

For what it's worth.

Okay, tell everybody a little bit about the book.

Okay.

So this book, my elevator pitch for this book has been that it is like Rosemary's Baby, but with tech bros instead of Satanists. So that's the basic premise. And the idea for the book actually came from my best friend who usually gives me all my best story ideas was telling me a story about her parents when they were young.

And they were at a group rental at Fire Island.

And it was when they had their first baby.

And they were the only couple in the house that had a baby and

they were surrounded by these sort of hard partying other young people and then the father was just

disappearing during the week to go back to the city to do various things that were you know not really what he should have been doing. And so I thought,

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