Sagit Schwartz, SINCE SHE'S BEEN GONE
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Zibby speaks to debut author and psychotherapist Sagit Schwartz about SINCE SHE’S BEEN GONE, an intense, masterfully plotted thriller about a clinical psychologist who is racing to uncover the truth about her mother’s death while struggling with her mental health. Sagit reflects on the emotional journey of writing this book, which is dedicated to her late mother, who passed away from cancer. She also shares her connection to the book’s focus on eating disorders and then discusses the themes of love, loss, and resilience.
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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. |
| 0:33.6 | Sejit Meyer Schwartz is the author of Since She's Been Gone, a novel. |
| 0:38.1 | Sejit is a writer, producer, and licensed psychotherapist. |
| 0:41.8 | Her work has been featured in Medium, Slate, The Atlantic, Reddit, No Sleep, and Lifetime Television. |
| 0:47.2 | She resides with her husband, daughter, and rescue dog in a Southern California beach town. |
| 0:51.3 | And by the way, I met Sajid because she tweeted all about |
| 0:56.7 | the helpful effects of my podcast, this very one, in helping her write this book. And we had a |
| 1:03.8 | whole talk, and then she wrote a whole essay about it. And it literally just made everything I do |
| 1:09.1 | worth doing. And we have stayed in touch. We've met in person in L.A. And she is amazing. I am so excited for her. It's like amazing. Welcome, Sagi, thank you so much for coming on Momsdon have time to read books to discuss since she's been gone. This is like a whole circle moment. I can't even believe it. |
| 1:26.5 | I know. It really, really is. |
| 1:30.3 | Like, I remember sitting in this chair listening to your podcast as I was writing the book. |
| 1:37.4 | It's unbelievable to me. It's truly a dream come true. Thank you for having me on the podcast. |
| 1:43.1 | I'm overwhelmed with emotion. |
| 1:45.0 | Aw. So listeners, before we talk about Sigeet's book, it must have been about a year, a year ago, |
| 1:53.2 | maybe two years ago. Yeah, a couple years, I think. A couple years, two years. Or a year and a half, yeah. |
| 1:58.6 | You wrote the most beautiful Twitter essay thing about how grateful you were for all the things you learned on the podcast and like that because of the podcast you had written a book. And I remember sitting at the island in my kitchen just like scrolling through and reading and like tears in my eyes. And I'm like, |
| 2:17.9 | oh my gosh. And I read it to my head. And I'm like, look at this. Look what this woman said. And then |
| 2:23.1 | you had your own book. And anyway, then we connected. And it was just so amazing. And we've met in |
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