The Invention of a Story

I began thinking the most deeply about my own particular past. The director of a boy's choir was eventually arrested on 15 counts of petaphelia. I did research into sexual abuse, into the wild life and the plants of maine. And so i turned to aristotle's poetics, particularly the rules for tragedy,. Used that to create the plot of the novel. One of the, a one of my favourite compliments on the novel is when some one asked me if it was based on a greek myth. That was the point.