Sadeqa Johnson, THE HOUSE OF EVE

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Zibby Owens interviews award-winning author Sadeqa Jones about her latest novel, The House of Eve, which is Reese's February Book Club pick! This daring and heartrending book is set in the 1950s and follows two Black women in Philadelphia and Washington, DC as they navigate motherhood, ambition, forbidden love, and life-altering decisions. Sadeqa reveals that this story is inspired by her own family history, and shares how much she enjoyed exploring race, class, elitism, and the fate of young Black women in mid-20th century America. She also talks about the taboo love story that Zibby loved (matzah ball soup involved!), her next historical fiction project, and the incredible book tour she is about to embark on.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now.
0:07.8	Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:10.7	It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or
0:21.1	less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this
0:25.9	podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature,
0:31.8	wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can
0:37.4	learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com,
0:39.5	but really you're here to learn more about the authors,
0:42.2	and that is what we're going to do.
0:44.4	Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts
0:46.9	in the ZCast Podcast Network.
0:49.4	You can learn more at ZCastnetwork.com
0:51.9	and definitely check out those shows as well.
0:58.4	Thank you. at ZCastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Sadiqua Johnson is the author of The House of Eve.
1:02.1	Sidiqua is the award-winning author also of, and then there was me, second house from the
1:07.4	corner, love in a carry-on bag, and yellow wife.
1:10.7	Yellow Wife was a 2022 Hurston Wright Foundation Legacy nominee, a BCLA literary honoree,
1:16.8	and a Barnes & Noble book club pick in paperback. Her other accolades include winning the
1:20.8	National Book Conference Award, the Phyllis Wheatley Book Award, and the USA Best Book Award
1:26.8	for Best Fiction. She is a Kim Villio Fellow and teaches in the MFA program at Drexel University. Originally from Philadelphia, she currently lives near Richmond, Virginia, with her husband and three children. And by the way, the website I was trying to remember was called Jolly Vintage. You'll see what I mean. Welcome, Sadiqua. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss the House of Eve. Thank you so much. It's so wonderful to be here. Oh, it's so wonderful to chat with you. I've been devouring this book. I love it. I love the characters. I could not put it down. I, you know, you never know when you pick up a book, what hits you and what doesn't.
2:01.8	And this just like totally got me.
2:03.7	So anyway, really enjoyed so much.
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