Bookshop Interview with Author Sonia Daccarett, Episode #268

Author Sonia Daccarett discusses her debut memoir, The Roots of the Guava Tree: Growing up Jewish and Arab in Colombia . Sonia never intended to write a book. But as she reached middle age, she found herself looking back on a childhood that felt strangely distant from the life she was living now. Her memoir became a way to bridge those two worlds. Sonia grew up in Colombia speaking a different language, surrounded by the vibrant culture of her country as well as the traditions of her Jewish and Arab heritage. Her grandparents emigrated to Colombia and built a life there, and Sonia was always captivated by the stories, customs, and languages that shaped her family—and, ultimately, her own identity. When she enrolled in a memoir-writing class, the memories began to surface in vivid, sensory detail, eventually blossoming into the book she never expected to write.

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Bookshop Interview with Author Sonia Daccarett, Episode #268 is an episode from The Bookshop at the End of the Internet by Stacey Horan.

This episode is 44:33 long.

This episode was published on Apr 23, 2026.

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