Rachel Kapelke-Dale, THE FORTUNE SELLER

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Guest host Alisha Fernandez Miranda interviews Rachel Kapelke-Dale about THE FORTUNE SELLER, an engrossing and propulsive coming-of-age story about an Ivy League equestrian team and the young tarot card reader who infiltrates it. Rachel reveals her connections to the horse world, highlighting her fascination with the class tensions in that environment: some are born into wealth, and others must work to participate in the sport. Then, she describes her writing process (she has evolved from being a “pantser”...), her novel’s themes of privilege, meritocracy, ambition, luck, and identity, and her expatriate life in Paris.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books with Zivie. I'm the host, Zivie Owens. I am an author. My latest is blank,
0:11.9	pub date March 1st, a novel. I'm also a podcaster, obviously, a publisher, a bookstore owner,
0:17.8	and so much more. If you love books, you're in the right place.
0:21.7	In fact, we call it the Zivieverse, or really, the L.A. Times called it the Zibiverse, and we're going with it.
0:27.1	Go to Zivie Owens.com to learn more and follow me on Instagram at Zivie Owens.
0:33.5	Rachel Capealke Dale is the author of The Fortune Seller, a novel.
0:36.9	This episode was guest hosted by Alicia Fernandez Miranda, author of My What If Year, which is a zippy book's title.
0:44.9	Rachel Capelleke Dale is the author of The Ongenue and The Ballerinas and co-author of graduates in Wonderland.
0:51.2	She received a BA from Brown University, where she wrote on the varsity
0:54.9	equestrian team, an MA from the Universite de Paris de Jereux, and a PhD from University College, London.
1:02.0	How did you like that accent? Right? Pretty good. She currently lives in Paris.
1:07.2	Rachel, welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. Happy New Year. We're still in early
1:12.8	2024 here. How are you today? I'm great. Thanks so much for having me on. It's great to meet you
1:19.1	and to talk with you and to be back on the pod. Well, I am extremely excited because this weekend I
1:24.9	dove into your book, which I had the good fortune to read early,
1:28.5	probably the best thing about this job. And I just, it was such a page turner. Like, I could not,
1:35.9	I could not stop. And I have a very bad habit of reading the ends of books before I finished.
1:41.9	It's horrible. My New Year's resolution should probably be to change it,
1:45.0	but I think it's impossible. But of course, I had to keep like, I was like, wait, I don't
1:49.2	understand. I have to go back. I have to go back. I have to finish. So yeah, it had me hooked.
1:53.5	So congratulations. Oh, thank you so much. I'm really glad to hear that and delighted that it
1:59.3	kept the tension going for you.
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