Zibby Books Author Alert!! Ava Dellaira, EXPOSURE: A Novel
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Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Zibby Books author alert! Zibby welcomes Ava Dellaira to discuss her powerful and provocative new novel, EXPOSURE. Ava delves into her protagonists, Noah, a Black high school senior, and Juliette, a white college freshman, who go home together after a night of drinking. Twelve years later, Juliette’s best friend Annie accuses Noah of raping Juliette—and the story breaks into multiple viewpoints and timelines, exploring themes of race, artistic ambition, grief, and the co-existence of conflicting truths. Ava shares how the start of the #MeToo movement, her personal grief, and motherhood shaped this story. She also talks about her background in photography, the loss of her mother, and her writing journey (including her popular YA novels!).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, hosted by me, Zibi Owens. |
| 0:07.6 | It's an award-winning podcast with over 1,900 episodes, all featuring authors of books you love and those you have yet to discover. |
| 0:15.5 | Listen daily five times a week. |
| 0:17.2 | Then go to Zivimedia.com and learn more about what the L.A. Times called the Zivieverse. |
| 0:22.7 | Zippy Media includes Zivis Bucshop, an independent bookstore in Santa Monica, |
| 0:27.2 | Zippy Books Publishing, Zippy Retreats, Zivis book club, and more. |
| 0:31.5 | Go check it out at Zivimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zivie Owens. |
| 0:36.8 | It'll take you where you need to go. Thanks for listening. |
| 0:42.7 | Ava DeLara is the author of Exposure, a novel, which is one of our Zivvy books titles, and we're so |
| 0:49.2 | excited about it. Eva is the author of the critically acclaimed young adult novels In Search of Us and Love Letters to the Dead, |
| 0:55.7 | which was named Best Book of the Year by Apple, Google, BuzzFeed, |
| 0:59.6 | the New York Public Library and the Chicago Public Library. |
| 1:02.4 | She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop |
| 1:04.5 | where she was a Truman Capote Fellow |
| 1:06.3 | and the University of Chicago. |
| 1:08.2 | She grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, |
| 1:10.1 | and now lives in Altadena, California, with her husband and their two of Chicago. She grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and now lives in Altadena, California, |
| 1:12.1 | with her husband and their two young children. Welcome, Ava. Thank you so much for coming on |
| 1:16.6 | Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, Discuss Exposure. Congratulations. |
| 1:21.2 | Thank you, Zimi. I'm so excited to be talking with you right now. |
| 1:25.6 | Yay. I feel so honored to have gotten such an early glimpse at the |
| 1:29.7 | manuscript when we acquired it for Zivie Books, which was wonderful. But for everybody else, |
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