Burn House Publishing
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Megan Allen:
You grew up in California but have lived in London and elsewhere. Your first book, The Slave Players, took place in Alabama and The Meat Hunter is set in the Midwest. What significance does “place” play in your life and in your writing?
Megan Allen
I think Alabama and the Midwest are the places in the world where I’ve felt the most outrage. There are parts of Morocco and Egypt where I’ve felt the same way, where camels are kicked and whipped as they carry bundles of negligent tourists on their backs, where monkeys are tied up in chains under a blazing sun, but I have much less experience there. The blatant racism against black people and minorities in the South is horrifying. Factory farms and the extensive ranches that exist in the Midwest are horrifying. I guess I like to expose those parts of the world and reflect on them. It happens in every corner of the earth, really, but to experience it in plain sight is a type of agony that makes my blood boil and my pen race for the page.
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Burn House Publishing
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Megan Allen:
Both The Slave Players and The Meat Hunter feature young female characters with complicated relationships with their fathers. Mothers aren’t present in either book or in the lives of the young female protagonists. What is it about the father/daughter relationship that you’re drawn to? Why no mothers?
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