I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.

I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what I'm doing.

It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten.

I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from, the good parts and the bad parts.

I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."

I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.

Your truth really can't be twisted. It is what it is. That doesn't mean that a person can't develop and change and reinterpret their life.