Sarah Hoover, THE MOTHERLOAD: Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Debut author Sarah Hoover joins Zibby to discuss THE MOTHERLOAD, an unflinchingly honest and brutally funny motherhood memoir that turns the ecstatic narrative women have been fed on its head. Sarah reflects on her harrowing journey through postpartum depression, navigating identity shifts, new motherhood, marriage challenges, and a complex relationship with her own mother. She shares how the trauma of childbirth and her struggle to find herself in the New York art world inspired her to write a book she wished she’d had during her darkest moments. She also reflects on the joy she now feels in her relationship with her son and offers heartfelt advice for new moms.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
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| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. |
| 0:44.5 | Sarah Hoover is the author of The Motherload, episodes from the brink of motherhood. |
| 0:49.8 | Sarah holds a master's degree in cultural theory from Columbia and a BA in art history from NYU. |
| 0:55.3 | Her writing has been featured in Mother tongue, The Strategist, and Vogue. |
| 0:58.8 | The Motherload is her first book. |
| 1:00.5 | Welcome, Sarah. |
| 1:01.3 | Thanks so much for coming on to discuss your memoir, The Motherload. |
| 1:05.5 | Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood. |
| 1:07.4 | Congratulations. |
| 1:08.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:09.3 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:10.7 | Oh, my gosh. Thank you for this immersive New York art world meets postpartum depression |
| 1:18.1 | meets mother-daughter relationships, story. It had so many elements of books that there |
| 1:25.2 | are just like so many, like if I could make a checklist of things I |
| 1:28.3 | am particularly into it would be in your book so oh my gosh I know it's kind of the kitchen sink |
| 1:34.4 | right like there I didn't hold back you did not hold back okay give give listeners like a general |
| 1:40.3 | a general overview of the story okay so I had my first child in 2017. I was working in an |
| 1:49.4 | art gallery at the time, like a large international gallery and had been working there for many |
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