![]() ![]() Once I got over my dream of being a ballerina, yes. I'm interested, in general, in what it means to be a woman, in this day and age, and so whether the inspiration for a specific story comes directly from my life, or from what I'm seeing in the world, those are the stories I tell. What happens when it takes more than one woman to make a baby? Then Came You tried to answer that question. What’s it like to be the good wife to a philandering politician? That became Fly Away Home. Then there are stories that come less from what’s going on with me than what’s happening in the world – and, specifically, to women in the world. Little Earthquakes emerged from the wreckage that new motherhood made of my life, The Next Best Thing emerged from the wreckage of a failed television show. In Her Shoes came from my lifelong curiosity about the sibling relationship, Good in Bed began in the wake of a bad break-up. Seriously, though….many of my ideas spring from my day-to-day life, and then get exaggerated, embellished and sharpened…they get made more fake and, hence, feel more real. ![]()
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