Ask the Author: Solveig Eggerz
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Solveig Eggerz
I usually start with an emotional question I want to explore. I find and develop a character from that question.
Solveig Eggerz
The theme of identity, the “who am I?” question grips me. In my other two books the protagonist is deeply tied to her mother. Sweet Potato is different. It shows a young person caught between two mothers.
Solveig Eggerz
Even though I have only lived a total of six years in Iceland, I have always been afflicted with a yearning for the place my Icelandic parents called “home.” My father’s entire career was with the Icelandic Foreign Ministry, utanríkisþjónustan, in three different countries — [the] U.K., the U.S., and Germany — so I grew up in those countries. But the connection to the homeland was always there. Unlike the U.S. State Department’s system of “home leave,” the fledgling Republic of Icelandic could not afford to bring us home every two years. Our lives felt like exile. So we kept Iceland in our hearts and imaginations. The yearning was planted in me by my parents the minute we left Iceland for England, two years after my birth. And it flourished. Probably both books grew out of that yearning.
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