Zoje Stage, GETAWAY
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
"You can only control your own life and what you do. Tomorrow isn't here. We just have today. Today, we're fine." Author of Baby Teeth Zoje Stage joins Zibby to discuss her latest novel, Getaway, which is not about a breezy vacation as the title may suggest. Zoje shares how the trauma she endured as a resident of Squirrel Hill — the neighborhood that was home to the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting — inspired the story's psychological and religious themes, and the parts of herself that she sees in her characters. Check out Zibby and Kyle’s appearance on Good Day LA where they recommended this book here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
| 0:12.2 | which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology. |
| 0:16.8 | All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research. |
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| 0:34.8 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:40.9 | Zoye Stage is the author of Getaway. |
| 0:46.5 | She is the USA Today, an internationally bestselling author also of Baby Teeth and Wonderland, |
| 0:50.6 | a former filmmaker with a penchant for the dark and suspenseful. She lives in Pittsburgh. |
| 0:55.4 | Welcome, Zoya. Thank you so much for coming on moms and have time to read books to discuss getaway. Thank you so much for having me. It's my pleasure. By the way, I thought the |
| 1:00.1 | funniest part of this book was when the three women were all, you know, hiking obviously in the |
| 1:05.1 | Grand Canyon and they have a conversation about writing books. And Imogen is saying sometimes |
| 1:10.4 | books aren't about the |
| 1:11.3 | writing. It can be a completely different kind of book. This is your life, your words. I'm sure it'll do |
| 1:16.0 | really well. And she says, if I can write it, it's probably the most daunting thing I've tried to do. |
| 1:20.8 | Except for this, Beck offered, you might be relieved after this to get home and only have to write a book, |
| 1:24.9 | which is brilliant and so funny. So can you tell listeners |
| 1:30.9 | what getaway is about? Sure. So getaway is about sisters Imogen and Beck and their friend from |
| 1:37.9 | high school, Tilda. And they've all, you know, been friends for 20 years or so, except that Tilda |
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