I had no agenda whatsoever. I just thought, I feel like something's there. And with this book too, it's sort of, I was thinking, okay, well, I've got the personal story. But I don't necessarily know what it's going to be. This is maybe unique relative to your other books in that this is something that you had wanted to do, had wanted to try. It's way more complicated and difficult than I might have expected.
Peggy Orenstein is a journalist and author. Her latest book is Unraveling.
“The challenge is… to not want to say, I need to know what the book is about. I need to have my chapters. I need to know what exactly I'm looking for. Because it's really scary to just go out and report and have trust that there's going to be interesting things and that if you just keep going, you're going to find them. So to not foreclose possibility and options and ideas is the biggest reporting challenge for those sorts of books for me.”
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