New York Times bestselling author! Kimberly McCreight, LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight returns to the podcast to discuss LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER, a breathless, shocking thriller about a daughter who returns to her childhood home in Brooklyn after months of not speaking to her mother… only to find an empty house in complete disarray, food burning on the stove, and a bloody shoe. The story unfolds through dual narratives as Cleo races to uncover her mother’s secret life. Kimberley reveals the book’s personal significance, drawing from her own experiences as a divorced mother, and then delves into the themes of midlife, parenting, public vs. private selves, and complex mother-daughter relationships. She also describes her organic writing process and hints at her upcoming book (it involves a hiking trip up Mount Kilimanjaro…).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, hosted by me, Zibi Owens. |
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| 0:36.8 | It'll take you where you need to go. Thanks for listening. |
| 0:42.6 | Kimberly McCrite is the author of Like Mother Like Daughter, a novel. She's the New York Times |
| 0:47.0 | bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, where they found her, a good marriage, which she came |
| 0:51.6 | on this podcast to discuss, and friends like these, as well as a young |
| 0:54.8 | adult trilogy, The Outliers. She has been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, and Alex Awards, |
| 1:00.1 | and her books have been translated into more than 20 languages. She lives in Brooklyn. |
| 1:04.0 | Welcome, Kimberly. Thank you so much for coming back on moms, don't have time to read books to discuss |
| 1:08.9 | like mother, like daughter. Congratulations. |
| 1:12.0 | Thank you. Thank you for having me again. I really appreciate it. |
| 1:14.9 | That's my pleasure. I know this book is personal to you with your daughters, and I saw you |
| 1:19.9 | posting them on Instagram, and I read about them and your acknowledgments. And obviously, |
| 1:25.5 | the whole book is infused with this mother-daughter |
| 1:28.2 | relationship two different sets of well mother-daughter father-daughter i mean it's you know it's |
| 1:35.6 | very poignant so anyway congrats it's a great great book tell listeners a little bit better of |
| 1:41.7 | the job what the plot is than my rambling right now. |
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