From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.

There’s something sexy in cooking for a man who likes my food. Am I growing up?

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.

There's a few scholars that object to how the italicized sections suggest that Native people are to take some part in the blame for how colonization occurred. But I say, "Yes they are." Not nearly as much blame as the colonizers, of course. But we are not just victims. I hate this idea that we are all just victimized and oppressed and etcetera etcetera. It's dehumanizing in its own way.

We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.