Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now.

Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or

less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this

podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature,

wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can

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Thank you. at Zcassnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Saeed Masud is the author of The Bad Muslim Discount, a novel.

He grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, a first-generation immigrant twice over.

He has been a citizen of three different countries and nine different cities.

He currently lives in Sacramento, California, where he is a practicing attorney. Welcome, Sayad. Thank you so

much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss bad Muslim discount and everything

else about your life. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Okay, so heads up to readers. You will encounter a very

interesting opening with lots of blood spurning everywhere and animal sacrifice and who knows what

you're getting into. Tell us and actually, well, I'll tell you that later. Tell listeners what

your book is about and what inspired it for you.

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