Tracey Lange, WE ARE THE BRENNANS: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Zibby is joined by Tracey Lange to talk about her debut novel, We are the Brennans, which was loosely inspired by her experience growing up in a large Irish Catholic family. Tracey shares her journey transitioning from lifelong reader to writer, why she's drawn to stories with messy relationships, and the process she went through to develop such a vivid yet wide-spanning cast of characters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.1 | If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids. |
| 0:12.9 | Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do. |
| 0:17.9 | All the authors have been on this podcast. Also, check out my TikTok at with Zibby and Tracy, my other podcast Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy. Check out |
| 0:26.2 | moms don't have time to write on medium. And of course, my new publishing company called |
| 0:30.8 | Zivvy Books. And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. |
| 0:36.7 | Hi. Hi. Hi. |
| 0:37.8 | Hello. |
| 0:38.4 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:41.1 | If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time |
| 0:46.0 | to Have Kids. |
| 0:47.4 | Here's a little snippet by one of the authors from the anthology. |
| 0:51.2 | My name is Jean McCulloch, and I'm thrilled and honored to have contributed to |
| 0:56.4 | moms don't have time to have kids. My essay is called Snow in the Night Sky. And what I really don't |
| 1:04.0 | have time for these days is to visit all my friends and relatives dotted throughout the country who I haven't seen since the lockdown. |
| 1:14.5 | So there's a goal for the coming year. |
| 1:17.2 | Tracy Lang is the author of We Are the Brennan's, a novel. |
| 1:20.1 | Born in the Bronx and raised in Manhattan, Tracy comes from a large Irish family with a few secrets of its own. |
| 1:25.5 | She headed west and graduated from the University of New Mexico |
| 1:28.0 | before owning and operating a behavioral health care company with her husband for 15 years. |
| 1:33.0 | While writing her debut novel, We Are the Brennan's, she completed the Stanford University |
| 1:36.9 | online novel writing program. Tracy currently lives in Bend, Oregon, with her husband, two sons, |
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