My New Book is a Memoir: We Take Our Cities with Us
One morning, I sat at my desk ready to tackle a perplexing question: How much of your novels are true?
A year later, I’d written the origin story for each novel and discovered that my pages were as much about the cities in my life as me.
Another surprise was that my Dutch mother–who’d recently died–was alive on almost every page. I made a list of my cities and hers, and started again.
In the next draft, Vienna bled into Maastricht and Lahore into Amsterdam, much as they did in the letters I’d inherited from my parents.
We Take Our Cities with Us is a memoir of loss and rediscovery in a globalized world.
Like all novels, it is true.
(Available in your bookstore in October 2022 and online for preorder now.)
A year later, I’d written the origin story for each novel and discovered that my pages were as much about the cities in my life as me.
Another surprise was that my Dutch mother–who’d recently died–was alive on almost every page. I made a list of my cities and hers, and started again.
In the next draft, Vienna bled into Maastricht and Lahore into Amsterdam, much as they did in the letters I’d inherited from my parents.
We Take Our Cities with Us is a memoir of loss and rediscovery in a globalized world.
Like all novels, it is true.
(Available in your bookstore in October 2022 and online for preorder now.)
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