Sarah Sentilles, STRANGER CARE: A Memoir of Loving What Isn't Ours
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
When Sarah Sentilles realized she wanted to become a parent, she learned that her husband did not want to bring another child into an already overpopulated world. The two looked to foster care and were placed with a three-day-old girl they immediately fell in love with. In her new book, Stranger Care, Sarah recounts the journey through the system and what happened when their almost daughter was placed back with her birth mother. As Sarah tells Zibby, her goals in writing the memoir were to give herself the agency the system had deprived her of and to remind herself and other readers that love and care don't have to be synonymous with parenthood.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
| 0:12.2 | which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology. |
| 0:16.8 | All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research. |
| 0:20.4 | And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium. |
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| 0:34.8 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:40.2 | Sarah Centillies is the author of Stranger Care, a memoir of loving what isn't ours. You might find that to be a recognizable name because |
| 0:47.6 | I have been doing a giveaway for her book in conjunction with Katie Couric Media and Random House |
| 0:53.3 | for the past month or so, which is now over. |
| 0:55.3 | Sorry. |
| 0:55.7 | Anyway, Sarah is the author of Draw Your Weapons, which won the 2018 Penn America Award for Creative |
| 1:01.5 | Nonfiction, Breaking Up with God, a church of her own, and taught by America. |
| 1:06.7 | A graduate of Yale University in Harvard Divinity School. She currently lives in Idaho's Wood River Valley. |
| 1:12.7 | Welcome, Sarah. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books. |
| 1:16.9 | Thank you for having me, Zibbi. I'm so looking forward to talking with you. |
| 1:20.2 | I loved Stranger Care, a memoir of mothering what isn't ours. And I feel like now I know you so well, |
| 1:27.0 | which I know that in memoir, you know, you only have a slice of yourself that you share. But just going through all this with you from, you know, the ship, whatever, the Chevy dealer, whatever it was, where you're upstairs taking the classes. And I mean, like all these little bits and pieces. I don't know why I pick that one random moment out of all the many, but just seeing your whole journey through this thing. Anyway, why don't you, I'm rambling, |
| 1:48.0 | because I'm like so excited, but tell listeners what Stranger Care is about and this whole journey, |
| 1:53.0 | which became the book. Yeah, sure. So I wrote Stranger Care as a love letter to our foster |
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