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No amount of creativity, acting, and dreaming can substitute for living an authentic life.
The use of exterior landscape to illustrate what is going on ‘inside’ my characters is now a feature of my writing.
Perseverance, to me, is faith in four syllables. I like to think of it as faith in myself, faith in the process, and faith in my dream, even when faced with rejection after rejection, obstacle after obstacle.
I hope my writing adds to the layers of representation for all the future brown girls, even in their “unlikeable” stages.
Verse novels can deftly tell a story of trauma, struggle, or loss, while allowing rays of sunshine in and the music of hope to sing.
The thing I love most about the cover is that its long shadows and setting sun and horizon line and winding path perfectly capture the emotional core of the book itself: the bittersweet certainty of the passage of time and the impossible impermanence of life.
I have lived with the effects of war all my life. It’s one of the main reasons why House of Yesterday exists—to try to untangle the ghosts and questions and guilt in an effort to find my way back home.
The problems seem so enormous, and they are, but I believe in our potential to come together to find solutions, organize and build the solidarity and power we need to overcome these challenges.
Instead of retelling the plot of Louisa May Alcott’s iconic novel, this chaotic homage takes a sideways approach, evoking (and poking fun at) the original while meditating on the power of stories – the ones we tell ourselves, and those imposed on us by others.
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