Madeleine Deliee wrote an incredibly detailed and lovely piece on Bridge for Shondaland. Deliee and I talk the complex mother-daughter relationship, how we echo our parents, why I wrote Bridge (and why it is a project so important to me) and lastly I reveal a few fantastic reads I’ve loved recently.
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“Predestination and choice figure prominently in Beukes’ thinking: It’s not just about who we are but also how we live and how we see the world.”

Via Shondaland:

Even for the book’s adversaries, Beukes wanted readers to come away with a sense of understanding and compassion — “I get why you feel like you need to do this,” as she puts it. That idea extends far beyond her own work into the basic foundation for the purpose of literature. “Books are a connection with other minds,” she says. “You bring your own experience. Connection to stories makes us more than who we are.”