The Story of Freshwater, by Tony Mar an Quote

With fresh water, there's this tony mar an quote that i use every time i talk about the book. She claimed them as central, and she let the rest of the world move over. So with freshwater, what i wanted to do was center o story in dis ebo reality. I interviewed my mam for it. O i didn't know, i don't remember most of my childhood is my mam sent me all these emals, giving me all these stories. And so at freshwater, i wanted to tell a story that was rooted in reality,. Some people will interpret this kind of cosmology that you're describing the book as magical realism or speculative fiction, or something