My book has been out in the world for more than a week and I’m sleeping better than I have for the past 7 years. Someday I’ll sit down and write about how it feels to be seized by a subject for so long. “Obsessed” can only begin to describe it. As I said earlier–here or somewhere else, I’ve lost track–I needed to tell this story and I told it. And that, my friend, is a great feeling.

Here are two interviews! The first is a fun, short read on Hasty Book List. Thank you to Emily at Mindbuck Media for setting up this and so many opportunities for my book! My favorite quote from this interview: “If I weren’t an author, I’d be…. a Broadway dancer.” Which everyone who grew up with me knows to be true. @MindbuckMedia

The second is an in-depth back-and-forth with Courtney Harler in The Masters Review. Courtney is a writer and editor I met at Bread Loaf in a workshop led by Luis Alberto Urrea and Naomi Jackson. Here’s an excerpt from the response to Courtney’s question about finding a home for Mother Mother at Loyola University’s Apprentice House Press. @apprenticehousepress

The call came on a Friday night. My kids and I were roaming the aisles of Target when an unfamiliar number flashed on my phone. I started jumping up and down, screaming. My son rushed over and grabbed me. “Mom, stop,” he said. “You’re on the security camera.” The three of us fell into a group hug. I was literally sobbing. I love that my kids witnessed my moment of victory because they’d seen me endure so much failure.

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