Yael Goldstein-Love, THE POSSIBILITIES
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Zibby speaks with Yael Goldenstein-Love about THE POSSIBILITIES, a powerful and wildly inventive new novel about a mother who ventures into parallel worlds to find her missing child. Yael shares her own harrowing birth experience, which inspired the book, and her journey as a novelist and a clinical psychology doctoral student. She and Zibby delve into the therapeutic aspects of writing and their shared maternal anxieties. The talk reveals Yael's motivations in exploring the complex psychological landscape of motherhood, both in her writing and in her academic pursuits.
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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. |
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| 0:25.6 | And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle |
| 0:31.2 | features. |
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| 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 one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to |
| 0:47.0 | enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in |
| 0:53.3 | 2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically |
| 0:56.5 | my favorite thing. Enjoy. Yael Goldstein Love is the author of The Possibilities, a novel. |
| 1:07.4 | Yael is the author of the novels The Passion of Tasha Darski, described as showing signs |
| 1:12.4 | of brooding genius by The New York Times, and of course the possibilities, a speculative |
| 1:16.9 | thriller about the psychological transition to motherhood, a people pick of the week, and |
| 1:22.3 | Good Morning America recommendation for summer reading. |
| 1:24.4 | I think that was actually me who recommended it. |
| 1:26.5 | The possibilities grew out of Yail's own rocky transition to motherhood, as well as her clinical passion for working |
| 1:32.2 | with people during this fraught and potentially generative period. Her doctoral dissertation |
| 1:36.3 | examined how mothers experience their anxiety for the unknown futures of their children. |
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