Sonali Dev, LIES AND OTHER LOVE LANGUAGES

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Zibby interviews bestselling author Sonali Dev about LIES AND OTHER LOVE LANGUAGES, a tender and compelling novel about three women navigating families, friends, careers, and the web of secrets that ties them together. The story is set against the backdrop of a surrogacy arrangement and delves into themes of motherhood, fear, loss, and the impact of DNA testing on relationships. Sonali discusses the diverse voices and perspectives of her characters, her writing process, her travel experiences, and her love for cooking. She also shares her excitement about her upcoming book, which centers around a woman's journey of self-discovery after finding a lost ring.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop
0:40.3	at one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to
0:47.0	enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in
0:53.3	2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is
0:56.1	basically my favorite thing. Enjoy.
1:03.5	Sonali Dave is the author of Lies and Other Love Languages, a novel.
1:08.0	Sinali's first literary work was a play about mistaken identities performed at her
1:11.9	neighborhood, Diwali, Extravaganza in Mumbai. She was eight years old. Despite this early success,
1:17.5	she spent the next few decades getting degrees in architecture in writing, migrating across the globe
1:21.8	and starting a family while writing for magazines and websites. With the advent of her first gray hair,
1:27.2	her mad love for telling
1:28.2	stories returned full force, and she now combines it with her insights into Indian culture
1:32.4	to conjure up stories that make a mad tangle with her life as a supermom, domestic goddess,
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