Saumya Dave, WHAT A HAPPY FAMILY
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by Saumya Dave, resident psychiatrist and author of Well-Behaved Indian Women, to talk about her latest novel, What a Happy Family. The two talk about what inspired Saumya and her husband to co-found the nonprofit, thisisforHER, why she finds herself drawn to intergenerational stories, and how her career in the medical field actually helps her career as an author. Read Saumya's essay about the intersection of her two careers on Moms Don't Have Time to Write.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.1 | If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids. |
| 0:12.9 | Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do. |
| 0:17.9 | All the authors have been on this podcast. Also, check out my TikTok at With Zibby and Tracy, my other podcast Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy. |
| 0:25.7 | Check out Moms Don't Have Time to Write on Medium. |
| 0:28.5 | And of course, my new publishing company called Zivie Books. |
| 0:32.3 | And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi. |
| 0:37.4 | Hi. Hello hello enjoy the show |
| 0:39.1 | somia dave is the author of what a happy family she is a writer resident psychiatrist |
| 0:46.7 | and co-founder of this is for her her writing has been featured in the new york times |
| 0:51.4 | huffington post refinery 29 and others she currently lives in new y York City with her husband and son. Welcome, Somia. Thank you so much for coming and moms don't have time to read bugs to discuss what a happy family. Thank you so much for having me. I love this podcast, so I'm so excited to be here. Oh, thank you. That means a lot. Okay, tell listeners what this book is about. And then I want to know why this book, |
| 1:13.6 | particularly after the success of your last book and how that all happened and, you know, all of that. |
| 1:18.6 | Sure. So what a happy family follows all of the members of the Yoshi family. So they're a South Asian |
| 1:23.3 | family who live in the suburbs of Atlanta. and all of them are going through different things |
| 1:27.8 | in their lives. And so the book really follows each character as they're navigating their own |
| 1:31.8 | battles and really asks the question, how do families hurt us and how can they also heal us? |
| 1:37.9 | I really wanted to talk about mental health, actually, in a family because I'm a psychiatrist |
| 1:42.6 | and I write fiction fiction and I struggle to |
| 1:46.1 | find books that portrayed mental health through fiction. So I thought, why not show through the lens |
| 1:51.0 | of different family members and show that sometimes we might put the people we love most in |
| 1:55.6 | certain roles. And instead of seeing them for who they are holistically, we put them back in those |
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