Susie Luo, PAPER NAMES: A Novel

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🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Zibby is joined by author Susie Luo to discuss her highly-praised debut novel Paper Names, which tells the sharp and propulsive story of two families who are brought together by an unexpected act of violence. One is a Chinese family of immigrants, and the other is a wealthy white family with a secret. Luo talks about identity in connection to her complex characters and herself. She also shares her journey to publishing this book, from college to corporate work to writing full-time. The episode concludes with a peek into her writing process and the work she has in progress!

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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 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of
0:47.9	our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.
0:56.5	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy.
1:03.4	Susie Luo is the author of paper names, a novel. Susie is a writer based in New York.
1:09.0	She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell Law School.
1:12.7	She wrote at night while working as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. Paper Names is her first book. Welcome, Susie. Thanks so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to Discuss Paper Names. Of course. I'm so excited to be here. I love this because here I am in the Upper East Side, reading about
1:27.6	the Rosewood on the Upper West Side and like the trips to the Hamptons and all of that.
1:32.9	This is really wonderful. Thank you. Yeah, I definitely get inspired by what's around me.
1:40.6	Are you in New York? Yeah, I live on the Upper West Side. Oh, great. Awesome. Well, why don't you tell
1:45.2	listeners what Paper Names is about? Sure. So Paper Names is a story about two families who are on
1:51.6	different tracks of the American dream, and then they're set on a collision course with each other.
1:56.0	One is a Chinese family who immigrated to the States, and the other is a white, wealthy family
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