The Importance of Writing a Book

"I think that in a way, whatever I write is always going to be about love and about family," she says. "There are much worse ways to grapple with something deep and meaningful in your life than to sit down for years and write a book about it." The novel's mother asks the narrator why she carries all of this around with her: "Why are you carrying all this around with you?" She borrows from an essay by Anne Carson called "The Glass"

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