Cherise Wolas's new novel is The Family Tabor.From her Q&A with Deborah Kalb:
Q: How did you come up with the idea for this new novel, and for the members of your fictional Tabor family?Visit Cherise Wolas's website.
A: The fictional Tabors have been with me for a very long time. I first imagined them during a snowstorm when I was living in a small town in Washington.
They lived in a rambling house, knew how to speak a dead language, and the youngest child was a hemophiliac who created alter egos for himself. That first iteration is in a tiny story called "Aramaic" that was published in Narrative magazine.
Their second iteration was in a long story called "An Unexpected Conversion." A new version of the Tabors appeared. They were clarifying themselves as a contemporary family and refusing their quasi-magical components.
Their third iteration appears in my debut novel, The Resurrection of Joan Ashby. Joan Ashby is an acclaimed story writer and her second collection, Fictional Family Life, is about a 15-year-old hemophiliac named Simon Tabor and his alter egos; and a 15-year-old boy named Simon Tabor who throws himself off the roof of the family home because...[read on]
Writers Read: Cherise Wolas (November 2017).
The Page 69 Test: The Resurrection of Joan Ashby.
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