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Taylor Jenkins Reid is the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones and the Six, the seven husbands of

Evelyn Hugo, and other novels. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their

daughter. Welcome, Taylor. Thanks so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss Malibu Rising. Oh, thank you for having me. I'm excited. So funny. I stayed up. I had read most of this a couple weeks ago. It kept me company the day that my kids went to my ex-husbands and I was so sad. And all I wanted to do was like get into bed and read something good. And I picked this I was like everybody's raving about this fuck and I had this interview coming up and it totally like

did the trick so I just like you like kept me company in like a very dark moment of the summer

I am I am honored to have had the opportunity thank you and then I finished it last night and it kept me up until like, you know, I don't know, 1.30 in the morning, which I never do because I read like eight books a week or something crazy. And I am very good with my time. And anyway, I was like, I cannot skim a word. Like I want every word of this book. Oh, thank you. My husband was like, that's the book of the summer, you know? I'm like, I know I've had it

everywhere we've gone. So anyway, that's my personal story about it. Okay, for people who don't know

what Malibu Rising is about, would you mind telling a little bit about it and also how you came up

with this, especially after Daisy Jones and the Six? Yeah, so Malibu Rising is the story of the

Riva family. They are four adult siblings, surfers, throwing a party at the end of August in

1983 in Malibu. And the book starts at 7 a.m. and takes you hour by hour through a day in the life of this family,

going back in time to their parents' marriage to show you all the long simmering tensions in this family.

And then as the party starts, some of these tensions rise to the surface. And by the end of the night,

everything has turned into complete chaos. So Maliburizing is the story of that day. And I came to

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