Mothers, Daughters,Braces is definitely my empty-nest book. It started out as something
completely different – even with a different title – but I was quickly and
inexorably pulled towards this story. It just shaped itself into this, almost
without my doing. That’s how it seemed, anyway.
It also became much more than I had originally expected.
But there was so much to say! (Isn’t there always, when it comes to braces?) And
I really think it works – I think the length is justified. I hope a lot of
readers enjoy losing themselves in this story for so long.
This was so much fun to write – even if it also made me
feel nostalgic. It still feels so personal, even though it isn’t at all my
story, or the story of my girls – yes, I had braces as a kid, and I had two
braced daughters, but we certainly didn’t have the Dr.Wrighting-experience and
our treatment and experiences weren’t really like a lot that happens in Mothers, Daughters, Braces. But I think
that’s also why the novel works – because so many people, especially mothers
and daughters, can relate to the characters and what they go through, even if
it’s very different from what they went (or are going…!) through, the same way I
could relate to everything as I was writing it.
I hope readers enjoy it as much – and get as much out of
it! – as I did writing it!.
1 comment:
I liked it.
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