On the mother-daughter story in the novel And so it's a very easy leap for me to see that in my characters. And so I was often the new girl in school and it was really my beloved books that were the friends that stayed with me all the time and that kept me going. And I think it's because, as a child who moved around a lot, I had a family where home was the family more than it was the place that we lived. You know that's actually something you'll find in my work, sort of off and on throughout the years. And so she reaches for a different life and a great deal of the novel is her struggling to break free of those initial beliefs about herself and her coming into a different kind of selfhood. And she does this based on a reading of The Age of Innocence, because she's a bit of a bookworm. The start of the novel is her basically making a decision to break out of the life that has been prescribed for her. And she's been told most of her life that she's just not good enough for various and sundry reasons. Well, you know, one thing that I wanted to sort of explore with Elsa was this idea of how much of our identity and our opinion of ourselves is formed when we are young, based on how our family feels about us and the things that our families say about us.Īnd so Elsa has grown up kind of an odd duck in a wealthy, important family in a very small Texas town. Highlights of the interview with Kristin Hannah
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