R.J. Palacio, PONY
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
After years spent writing within the world of her bestselling book, Wonder, R.J. Palacio's new novel Pony is a stunning change of pace. Set in the American frontier in the 1850s, the "quick epic," as R.J. calls it, grapples with big themes like life, death, and family. R.J. tells Zibby about how her own orphanhood inspired elements of the story, why she scrapped the first version of her manuscript after two years of work and began it from scratch, and the role music played in helping her complete the novel.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
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| 0:35.0 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:40.8 | R.J. Palacio is the author of Pony. She's also the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Wonder, which has sold |
| 0:47.1 | over 12 million copies worldwide. If you haven't read Wonder, you have to go do that. I mean, |
| 0:52.0 | Pony's also amazing, but Wonder was, like, insane. |
| 0:54.8 | The book's message inspired the Choose Kind movement and has been embraced by readers around the world, |
| 0:59.5 | with a book published in over 50 languages. |
| 1:02.1 | Wonder was made into a blockbuster movie starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, and Jacob Tremblay. |
| 1:07.3 | Palacio's other best-selling books include 365 Days of Wonder, Mr. Brown's Book of Precepts, |
| 1:13.5 | Augie and Me, Three Wonder Stories, the picture book, We're All Wonders, and the graphic novel White Bird, |
| 1:19.0 | which is currently being filmed as a major motion picture starring Jillian Anderson and Helen Mirren. |
| 1:24.4 | Palacio lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two sons, and two dogs. Welcome, Raquel. Thanks so |
| 1:29.3 | much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss Pony. Thank you so much for |
| 1:33.6 | inviting me. I'm so excited. I loved this book. I read it like start to finish. It was so immersive. |
| 1:41.8 | I got chills. I was like near tears and many points. And then after I read the entire thing, I went online and watched the trailer after your comments at the end. And I was like, oh, what trailer? Then I played it. And I was like, oh, my God. And then I emailed your publicist. And I was like, that was so emotional. Thank you so much. It means so much to, you know, it's the first thing I've |
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