Interestingly enough, and I mean in terms of storytelling, my mother was a psychiatric social worker and my father was a judge in the military. After Vietnam he became an attorney and then a judge. So, a lot of dinner table conversation was really about behavior and which, of course, was really storytelling. So my mother would talk about the family she was treating and, you know, what was going on in that family. My father would talk about the cases that he’d seen. And we’d go around the room and talk about what, you know, what happened at school that day. But all of it was very much personal narrative. And that’s what interested me in novels as well too.
Really, I didn’t like
I wasn’t much of like an adventure story reader or a fantasy story reader. I really liked stories about kids, children, young women, you know, and what they were trying to learn or accomplish or do. You know, books like the Little House books or Anne of Green Gables or Wrinkle in Time. And they all had, you know, very kind of interesting, strong, self-determined young heroines in them.
