Clara Taylor
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Rene Denfeld:
I was amazed by The Enchanted and moved by The Child Finder. You write about deeply disturbing subjects but never trivialize, moralize, or use gratuitous drama, yet tell difficult stories that reach our heart and soul. How do you form books that show ordinary people, heroic in their way, without preaching and judging? Perhaps there is no answer, other than you are extremely talented. Thank you.
Rene Denfeld
Aw, thank you!! I think it's because I write about the kind of people I know, in real life. Katherine Dunn once told me the job o the writer is to tell the truth, not what they think others want to hear. That helps me get away from stereotypes and into the beautiful, complex, haunting realities of humanity. I also believe in honoring victims, even fictional victims, and would never exploit their trauma or violate their dignity. Thank you for writing me!!!
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Nichole Balderrama
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Rene Denfeld:
QUESITION? I HAD A THEORY: Those who are named are bad while they in fact should be the ones that get forgotten. And vice versus those who are good, the lady and the fallen priest for example are unnamed and good people including the lost boy and the warden. And then I thought the narrator is unnamed too, maybe he is one of those men that doesn't deserve to be on the row but then in the end to my surprise he was name
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