Nancy Jooyoun Kim, WHAT WE KEPT TO OURSELVES

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Zibby is joined by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Jooyoun Kim to discuss WHAT WE KEPT TO OURSELVES, an intricately crafted mystery and heart-wrenching family saga about a Korean American family in Los Angeles, their missing mother, and the dead stranger that appears in their backyard. Nancy discusses the themes of motherhood, immigration, grief, the challenge of communication between generations, and what it means to disappear, all of which tie to her novel and her real life. She also describes her path to storytelling and gives us a glimpse into the book she is working on now!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop
0:40.3	at one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to
0:47.0	enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in
0:53.3	2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically
0:56.5	my favorite thing. Enjoy it. Nancy Zhu Yun Kim is the author of what we kept to ourselves
1:06.7	a novel. Nancy is the New York Times bestselling author, also of the last story of
1:12.2	Mina Lee, a Reese's book club pick. She was on this podcast to talk about that book as well.
1:16.8	Born and raised in Los Angeles, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
1:20.2	Welcome, Nancy. Thank you for coming back on moms. I don't have time to read books now to discuss
1:25.1	what we kept to ourselves a novel. Oh, thank you so much for having
1:29.0	me, Zibi. It's so great to be here again. And congratulations on Zibi books and your bookstore.
1:34.1	So exciting. Thank you. I love this cover. Do you just have like bowls of little Clementines around
1:40.2	or tantri and oranges? Those are persimmon. That's a fu-you persimmon, which are actually in season right now.
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