Sarah Damoff, The Burning Side
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Zibby’s Book Club Pick! I ugly-cried on the plane reading Sarah Damoff’s THE BURNING SIDE. It was like listening to a symphony — beautiful throughout but with piercing violin moments that made me clutch my chest. I love these characters so much. The writing is pure, not overdone or self-important, but elegant and poignant. Multiple perspectives. Emotions. Love. Loss. Home. Family. Memory. Time. Motherhood. All of it. One of my all-time favorites. Sobbed. In the best way. Thank you, Sarah Damoff. THE BURNING SIDE is just perfection. I feel more connected to all of humanity after connecting so deeply to this family — and feel honored to have spent time with these fictional souls.
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| 1:01.8 | Zibby Owens. Sarah Damoff is the author of The Burning Side, a novel, which, by the way, is one of my favorite books |
| 1:11.9 | ever. I posted a picture of myself, basically sobbing when I finished it. It is my book club |
| 1:17.8 | pick for this summer, and you can find information about that. I'll add it to the show notes, |
| 1:23.7 | but also it's on Zivvy Media under Book Club, and you can join me in asking Sarah any |
| 1:29.8 | questions you want. Sarah is the author of The Bright Years also, which was a USA Today bestseller, |
| 1:36.2 | and is being translated into 12 languages. She lives with her husband and children in Texas, |
| 1:41.0 | where she has been a social worker. You have to listen to this episode. |
| 1:49.1 | Welcome, Sarah. Thank you so much for coming on Totally Booked to talk about the Burning Side. |
| 1:54.9 | Congrats. Thank you so much for having me, Zibi. I have to say, I posted it, as I know you saw, |
| 1:59.7 | after I finished the book, I was, like, sobbing on an airplane. And I think it's one of the most popular most I've ever done. |
| 2:02.0 | Like I have like 200,000 people who are like saving it and wanting to read it. And I was like, |
| 2:06.9 | okay, this is it, the secret sauce. Like you write a book like this. You get people to just feel so |
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