Sunny Hostin, ON THE BLUFFS: A NOVEL
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Lawyer and co-host of The View Sunny Hostin joins Zibby to discuss her debut novel, Summer on the Bluffs. Sunny reveals how she set up a writers room of friends to help workshop the book, why she chose to feature this specific house on the cover, and the ways in which her own battle with infertility inspired elements of her story.
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| 0:57.2 | Sunny Hosten is the author of New York Times bestselling novel, Summer on the Bluffs. Sunny is a three-time Emmy Award-winning legal journalist |
| 1:03.5 | and co-host of The View. Last fall, Hosten released her national best-selling book, |
| 1:08.8 | I Am These Truths, a memoir of identity, justice, and living between worlds. |
| 1:13.0 | She has been featured in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes Woman, Essence Newsweek, The New York Post, Latina, and Ebony. |
| 1:19.9 | A sought-after public speaker, she has delivered a TEDx talk called A Possibility Model and has spoken in moderated panels at UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism, |
| 1:28.5 | corporate council, women of color, and the National Bar Association. She is also served as a witness |
| 1:33.3 | at the federal judiciary's congressional hearing for the public's right of access to the courts. |
| 1:38.8 | Sunny Houston lives with her husband and two children in New York. Welcome, Sunny. Thank you so much for coming to discuss Summer |
| 1:46.5 | on the Bluffs, your novel. Thank you for having me. Thank you. I have loved this book. It's so |
| 1:55.1 | fun. It's so engaging. I don't know what I was expecting, but I just loved it. It was so great. Anyway, as you know, |
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