Some of my goals as a fiction writer

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Fiction is a technique to find a vantage point, an oblique way of getting at the facts, catching them off guard, getting a look at them when they think your back is turned.

This book isn’t a story in the traditional sense, a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, but when all the pieces are assembled, it’s a story in the sense that any portion of our lives are stories: circumstances and choices from years before that shape the present, present choices that shape the moment, the way a grandfather you never met informs your relationship with your daughter.

Life is messy and meandering, multi themed and multi faceted; sometimes you exert an influence, sometimes you’re swept along.

My goal is an illumination of a particular set of circumstances with the hope that the personal becomes universal; that my rendering offers a perspective you might not otherwise have had, or puts a voice to something whose presence was mute but palpable.