Susan Choi, TRUST EXERCISE

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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I did an Instagram Live with Susan Choi, which was so much fun. Susan's first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for Fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. Her fourth novel, My Education, received a 2014 Lammy Award. Her fifth novel, Trust Exercise, came out in April 2019 and is the one we talked about the most. It won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction. Susan and I also talked about quarantine hair secrets, our agreement that the world students live in today is more complicated than the one we grew up in, and that different secrets to writing a book sometimes feel just like learning to parent different children.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms, don't have time to read books. Thanks so much for listening to my podcast. If you like what you hear, please follow me on Instagram at Zibi Owens and also at Moms Don't Have Time to
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1:06.0	I was able to do it Instagram Live with Susan Choi, which was so much fun. Susan's first novel,
1:12.5	The Foreign Student, won the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction. Her second novel, American
1:17.0	Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, A Person of Interest,
1:22.9	was a finalist for the 2009 Penn Faulkner Award. In 2010, she was named the inaugural recipient of the Penn-WG-C-Bald Award.
1:31.5	Her fourth novel, My Education, received a 2014 Lammy Award,
1:35.8	and her fifth novel, Trust Exercise, which came out in April 2019,
1:39.9	and is the one we're going to be talking about the most,
1:42.4	won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction. Her first book for children is called Camp Tiger, and it came out in May 2019, a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She currently teaches fiction writing at Yale and lives in Brooklyn. Hi, Susan. How are you? Hi. I'm good. How are you? Can you hear me? I can. Can you hear me?
2:04.5	I can. And I can see you. Great. Did you have a nice Mother's Day? I did. I had a really
2:11.5	peaceful Mother's Day. How about you? Yeah, it was nice. It was nice. Really kids breakfast in bed the whole thing. So that was
2:19.6	really special. Oh, that's great. What did you get to eat? Pancakes and some scrambled
2:26.6	eggs, although once I was in bed with all the food, they just wanted to eat it all. So I might have
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