Janelle Brown is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, This Is Where We Live, and the newly released Watch Me Disappear.From her Q&A with Deborah Kalb:
Q: How did you come up with the idea for Watch Me Disappear?Learn more about the book and author at Janelle Brown's website.
A: There wasn’t one particular genesis. It was a slow process. It changed a lot of times.
A couple of things—my husband has temporal lobe epilepsy. I was always fascinated by the way his brain works, the fact that he has experiences where reality shifts. He has experiences of the world that I don’t have. I knew I wanted to write about that—I had an image of a teenage girl who sees her dead mother. Is it real or is it epilepsy? It grew from there.
Also, I had a friend who was a problematic character, who vanished from my life for a while.
I realized I was writing a mystery. I got halfway through and had to rethink things.
Q: The book looks at how well we know people we’re close to. What intrigues you about that topic?
A: I think we have a notion that once you love someone and are loved back, you become...[read on]
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