Hi, this is Vivi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. And speaking of books, I have two of my own books coming out this spring and summer. Princess Charming is a picture book, which debuts on April 19th. And Bookends, a memoir of love, loss, and literature comes out on July 1st, and it is truly a labor of love. I hope you'll pre-order, order, and join me on tour as I go across the country.

You can find out more at zibbyowens.com or bookendsmemoir.com.

And you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens because I always post about everything. Enjoy the show.

Kian Julie Wang is the author of Beautiful Country, a memoir. She was born in China and at age

seven moved to Brooklyn, New York with her parents. For five years thereafter, the three of them

lived in the shadows of undocumented life in New York City. Her first book is a poignant literary memoir that follows the family

through those years as they held on to hope and joy while confronting poverty, manual labor,

and the perpetual threat of deportation. A graduate of Yale Law School and Swarthmore College,

where she juggled classes and extracurriculars with four part-time jobs.

She's now a litigator. She wrote Beautiful Country on her iPhone during her subway commute to and

from work at a national law firm, where she was elected to partnership within two years of joining

the firm. She is now a managing partner of Gottlieb and Wang, LLP, a firm dedicated to advocating

for education and civil rights.

She believes that the first step to eradicating systemic barriers is affording underprivileged

communities the quality of legal representation typically reserved for wealthy corporate interests.

Her writing has appeared in major publications, such as The New York Times, The Washington

Post, L. Harper's Bazaar in The Cut. She regularly speaks on issues such as immigration, education, discrimination, and the power

of literacy in the media, and at conferences, universities, corporations, community centers,

and houses of worship. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, and their two rescue dogs,

salty and peppers. And I was lucky enough to meet her at the poets and writers gala,

and she is just as amazing as she seems in the podcast. Hi there. How are you? It's nice to meet you.

Good. How are you? Wonderful to meet you. Thanks for doing this. Your memoir was so,

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