Author Event + Live Podcast Recording with Elisa Albert and Zibby Owens!

Zibby's Bookshop is thrilled to celebrate the launch of Elisa Albert's HUMAN BLUES with an author event and live podcast from Zibby Owens' Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books!

About the book:

A provocative and “darkly funny” (Cosmopolitan) novel about a woman who desperately wants a child but struggles to accept the use of assisted reproductive technology—a “riotous, visceral” (Vanity Fair) send-up of feminism, fame, art, commerce, and autonomy.

On the eve of her fourth album, singer-songwriter Aviva Rosner is plagued by infertility. The twist: as much as Aviva wants a child, she is wary of technological conception, and has poured her ambivalence into her music. As the album makes its way in the world, the shock of the response from fans and critics is at first exciting—and then invasive and strange. Aviva never wanted to be famous, or did she? Meanwhile, her evolving obsession with another iconic musician, gone too soon, might just help her make sense of things.

Told over the course of nine menstrual cycles, this utterly original novel is a “fast, fiery, and often funny” (The Boston Globe) interrogation of our cultural obsession with childbearing. It’s also the story of one fearless woman at the crossroads, ruthlessly questioning what she wants and what she’s willing—or not willing—to do to get it.

About the speakers:

Elisa Albert is the author of After Birth, The Book of Dahlia, How This Night Is Different, and editor of the anthology Freud’s Blind Spot. Her stories and essays have appeared in Time, The Guardian, The New York Times, n+1, Bennington Review, Tin House, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Literary Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in upstate New York.
Zibby Owens is the bestselling author of Blank: A Novel, Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, Princess Charming, and the forthcoming novel Overheard. She is the editor of two anthologies: Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology and Moms Don’t Have Time To Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology. She has contributed regularly to
GMA and Katie Couric Media and has written for Vogue, Oprah Daily, The Washington Post, and other outlets. Zibby is the founder and CEO of Zibby Media, which includes the Zibby Books boutique publishing house, Zibby’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Santa Monica, CA, the award-winning daily podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, which she hosts, Zibby’s Book Club, and Zibby Retreats for book lovers. A frequent event moderator, speaker, media personality, and podcast guest, Zibby has been featured on many international and local news outlets, including Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, the BBC, the Jerusalem Post, La Nación, the Hindustan Times, USA
Today, the New York Post, and the Los Angeles Times, which coined the term “the Zibby-verse.” Vulture dubbed her “NYC’s Top Book-fluencer,” and her podcast was repeatedly one of Oprah’s top literary podcasts.

Zibby lives in New York (and sometimes L.A.) with her husband, Kyle Owens of Morning Moon Productions, and her four children, ages 9 to 17. She was a stay-at-home mom until she launched her podcast in 2018, starting her next chapter. Follow her on Instagram @zibbyowens and Substack, where her blog is a bestseller.

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