Sarah Sawyer, THE UNDERCURRENT: A Novel
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Zibby Books author alert! Zibby welcomes debut author Sarah Sawyer to discuss THE UNDERCURRENT, a stunning, achingly beautiful, and gripping suspense about an overwhelmed new mother who becomes obsessed with the unsolved disappearance of a young girl from her small Texas hometown—and unearths her own family’s dark secret. Sarah shares how her own experiences, particularly watching her daughter struggle with a thyroid disorder, inspired her reflections on the transformations women experience. She also delves into her novel's themes of female relationships, different life paths, and the impact of motherhood on personal identity. Finally, she shares her best advice for aspiring writers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, hosted by me, Zibi Owens. |
| 0:07.6 | It's an award-winning podcast with over 1,900 episodes, all featuring authors of books you love and those you have yet to discover. |
| 0:15.5 | Listen daily five times a week. |
| 0:17.2 | Then go to Zivimedia.com and learn more about what the L.A. Times called the Zivieverse. |
| 0:22.7 | Zippy Media includes Zivis Bucshop, an independent bookstore in Santa Monica, |
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| 0:36.8 | It'll take you where you need to go. Thanks for listening. |
| 0:42.6 | Sarah Sawyer is the author of The Undercurrent. This is the Zivvy Books title for October, |
| 0:48.9 | and we are so excited for it. Gileon Flynn, who wrote Gone Girl, is one of the people who blurbed it, including |
| 0:55.4 | Chris Whitaker and others. People are going crazy for this book, so you have to check it out. |
| 1:00.9 | Sarah Sawyer is an English teacher who lives and works at a boarding school in Western Massachusetts, |
| 1:05.8 | where she finds endless humor and inspiration in her colleagues and students. She is a graduate of Amherst College and the |
| 1:12.2 | Breadloaf School of English. The Undercurrent is her first novel. Welcome, Sarah. Congratulations on |
| 1:18.0 | the Undercurrent. So excited to talk to you today about this fabulous debut novel of yours. Congratulations. |
| 1:25.1 | Thank you. Thank you for having me. Okay. Tell everybody what is the undercurrent about, the big question. |
| 1:31.3 | About a lot of things, I think. |
| 1:33.1 | It is about a lot of things. |
| 1:34.3 | Well, it is the story of a new mom named B, who becomes fixated with the story of a girl who went missing in her neighborhood when she was a kid. |
| 1:45.8 | And because she is struggling with her new motherhood, she gets the idea in her head that she's going to go back to |
| 1:50.7 | her hometown and unravel this mystery. And she ends up uncovering some family secrets that |
| 1:57.8 | have been beneath the surface of her life all along. That's the story. |
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