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Archives for September 2017

Clara’s Heart and the Unwritten Prequel

September 29, 2017

Books from Author Joseph Olshan

Clara’s Heart was published when I was in my late twenties; the sequel, In Clara’s Hands, was published fourteen years later. Just after the sequel was published I was in London promoting the book and was taking a black cab to an interview. Once the driver began to speak to me, I could tell he was from Jamaica and we began to chat. As someone who normally downplays the fact that I am a writer, I very uncharacteristically told him that I’d written a novel and a sequel whose protagonist was a Jamaican woman. He asked me the name of the books and I told him and he’d actually read Clara’s Heart and was surprised to hear there was a sequel. He asked me the plot of the sequel, and I told him and there was silence – I couldn’t tell if it might be the silence of disapproval. After a few moments, he asked, “Do you think you’ll write another book about her?” [Read more…]

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Fiction often makes a stronger case than Journalism

September 14, 2017

Because my reading time is taken up with manuscript submissions, the only outside reading I do is listening to audiobooks when I drive the longer distances demanded by living in a rural area. I just finished Home Fire by the British/Pakistani writer Kamila Shamsie and it made me reflect on the power of narrative fiction to better illustrate through dramatization social and political truths that straight journalism, hewing to the facts, cannot quite deliver.

Feeling Disenfranchised

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Historical Fiction – Finding the Unanswered Question

September 7, 2017

The Mapmaker’s Daughter

Katherine Nouri Hughes - Author of The Mapmaker's Daughter

Like almost everyone, like you, probably, I remember certain things from before I was 12. But it’s from 12 that I can remember my life in a narrative way. Because my family got rearranged then? Some other reason? I don’t know. But the age was 12. And from then on, I can recall the broad sweep and the defining details of what has become my whole life.

The girl I’ve written about in The Mapmaker’s Daughter was 12 when she captured the attention of the most powerful man on earth. Her name was Cecilia Baffo Veniero. His was Suleiman the Magnificent. [Read more…]

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