Sara Freeman, TIDES
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Debut novelist Sara Freeman joins Zibby to talk about her book, Tides, and why she was interested in writing psychological literature about sibling dynamics. Sara shares what it was like to spend so much time with the novel's protagonist, how her childhood as the child of a news correspondent left her feeling a little detached from the idea of what makes a home, and which books she's currently reading now.
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| 0:23.8 | 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. |
| 0:28.5 | You can find out more at Zibiowens.com or bookendsmemoir.com. |
| 0:34.3 | And you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens because I always post about everything. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:41.7 | Sarah Freeman is the author of Tides. She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in fiction |
| 0:47.5 | in 2013. At Columbia, she won the Henfield Prize for the best piece of short fiction by a graduate |
| 0:52.7 | student. Her work has previously |
| 0:54.2 | been published in a number of literary magazines, and she is a Montreal-born writer, |
| 0:59.6 | currently based out of Boston. Welcome, Sarah. Thanks so much for coming on moms. Don't have time |
| 1:04.0 | to read books to discuss tides. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Of course, my pleasure. Would you |
| 1:09.3 | mind telling listeners what your novel is about? |
| 1:12.4 | Of course. So in many ways, just not to give, you know, too many of the plot points away, because I think some of the joy of the book is sort of the reveals as they come along. But it's the story of a woman in the aftermath of a kind of intimate loss. |
| 1:29.1 | She leaves behind her family in order to start a kind of a new life in a seaside town. |
| 1:35.7 | And we sort of see her slowly piecing together, |
| 1:38.9 | not only what happened to her in her past life, |
| 1:42.8 | but really trying to come to terms with those losses. |
| 1:46.2 | I feel like you have a brother, like a sibling thing going on with your life because obviously |
| 1:52.3 | there's a strong relationship that's from the start with her and her brother and knowing that he |
| 1:56.7 | will always bail her out and all this. And then I read your article about your brother and like |
| 2:00.5 | the morning you went through and he got married and all that. And I was just wondering if you |
| 2:04.6 | could talk more about some sibling relationships and the power of that and the place of that |
| 2:10.2 | in your new novel. Yeah. So actually the sort of germ of the novel really was to write about |
| 2:16.7 | sibling relationships. and in particular |
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