Who remembers what to do? she asks. Who remembers what it means to be more than what this world believes of us? - Maaza Mengiste

I think fiction gives us a door into what is actually happening around us. There are those who don’t trust fiction, they will read history or biography, but they don’t understand that those forms of narrative are also constructed.

She is mid-sentence, her tongue against her teeth, curving around a word lost forever.

part of what I’ve realized with this [second] book is that creativity is always about running against and into yourself. In every way. (2017)