National bestselling author! Marjan Kamali, THE LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Zibby chats with author Marjan Kamali about THE LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN, a heartwrenching and achingly beautiful novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran. Marjan describes the plot of her book, which follows two girls from very different backgrounds who form a close bond, face a betrayal, and reconnect years later in America. The conversation delves into themes of trauma, healing, friendship, and women’s rights and activism. Marjan also shares her writing process (which involves a lot of longhand writing) and offers her best advice for aspiring authors.
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| 0:32.4 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. |
| 0:38.4 | Moms don't have time to read books. |
| 0:40.4 | I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank. |
| 0:46.5 | I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, |
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| 0:56.3 | Learn more at Zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zibbi Owens or join the community at Zivie Readers. Marjan Kamali is the |
| 1:04.8 | author of the Lion Women of Tehran. She was born in Turkey, two Iranian parents, spent her |
| 1:10.5 | childhood in Kenya, Germany, Turkey, |
| 1:12.8 | Iran, and the United States. |
| 1:14.5 | She holds degrees from UC Berkeley, Columbia University, and New York University. |
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