St. Martin's Literary Fiction

St. Martin's Literary Fiction asked Bryn Greenwood:

Your biography mentions that you grew up “the daughter of a mostly reformed drug dealer” in Kansas. How much of Wavy’s story is your own, or inspired by your own upbringing?

Bryn Greenwood It would be more accurate to say that I grew up the daughter of a drug dealer. He was still very much in the business during my childhood, until his last arrest and conviction. He was released from federal prison shortly after I graduated from college. These days he's at least as law-abiding as your average senior citizen with a taste for guns, motorcycles, and tattoos. He is, however, not much like Wavy's father, having never been mistaken for a movie star, and having a much more entrepreneurial spirit. My mother, long divorced from him, is actually a teetotaler, but there is a touch of my late step-mother's beauty and sweetness in Sandy. On the other hand, the armed compound, the drugs, and the constantly changing roster of hangers-on, those all played a role in my youth.

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