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Lisa See:
We once saw you and your Mom present at the L A Book Festival at UCLA. It was delightful and is a wonderful memory! You were so darling together. Are you working on a new novel? I love reading your books, and I've read many of them. Thanks for being a writer.
Lisa See
I remember that event! What I remember the most about it was that the moderator said she'd rather be at a party with my mom than with me. My mom surely was a party girl, no question about that.
I’m writing a novel based on my great-grandmother’s diary. She grew up on a homestead in South Dakota. Her family then continued west to homestead in Washington State. She got pregnant very young and had to get married. She and her husband (my great-grandfather) became itinerant workers, working from Alaska down to the Mexican border. It may sound different thematically and geographically from my other books, but I think it fits right in. I’m once again telling a moment of history through the eyes of women.
I’m writing a novel based on my great-grandmother’s diary. She grew up on a homestead in South Dakota. Her family then continued west to homestead in Washington State. She got pregnant very young and had to get married. She and her husband (my great-grandfather) became itinerant workers, working from Alaska down to the Mexican border. It may sound different thematically and geographically from my other books, but I think it fits right in. I’m once again telling a moment of history through the eyes of women.
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Shannon N. Durant
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Lisa See:
I just finished reading The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane. There are so many lessons that I took from this book, including you Acknowledgements. The insights I gain is that I must listen. Listen to my heart, dreams and intuition as this book started with a dream. I must put my who heart into whatever I do, even if it takes years to see it come to fruition. What did you mean by no coincidence, no story?
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