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Ashly
I just finished the book and was really curious myself. After some digging I found an interview with the author where she explains the deal with the yucca in her own words:
Interviewer: And then you said something in your book that piqued my curiosity: Never trust a yucca. Why not?
Clare: When I create characters, I always start from thinking what is this person good at? What does this person struggle with? What do they find really hard? What’’s their fatal flaw? And I start from that, and then I sort of add these little layers and details over time, and they become more and more three-dimensional and interesting.
One of Daphne’s little quirks is that she talks to her plants. And I thought she’s the sort of person who would dislike a particular plant just because she herself is quite spiky. She’s not the sort of person who would treat all plants the same.
https://www.26.org.uk/articles/interv...
Interviewer: And then you said something in your book that piqued my curiosity: Never trust a yucca. Why not?
Clare: When I create characters, I always start from thinking what is this person good at? What does this person struggle with? What do they find really hard? What’’s their fatal flaw? And I start from that, and then I sort of add these little layers and details over time, and they become more and more three-dimensional and interesting.
One of Daphne’s little quirks is that she talks to her plants. And I thought she’s the sort of person who would dislike a particular plant just because she herself is quite spiky. She’s not the sort of person who would treat all plants the same.
https://www.26.org.uk/articles/interv...
Erin Schauder
I could be wrong, but I think nothing was up, it was just a little joke. At the beginning of the book, it talked about how Daphne would talk to everything in her apartment and how she didn’t trust the yucca plant.
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Nov 11, 2024 10:04AM · flag