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After all, Valentines Day is about love, and theres plenty of that inSplinters.
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Vogue: How does seeing this book enter the world feel, compared to the release ofThe Recovering?
You write so beautifully about motherhood both sharpening and softening you.
Does that push-pull feel associated with your daughters babyhood, or is it a parenting constant?
Its very much a constant experience!
So much ofSplintersis trying to express that conflict in my life.
What is it covering up?
Are there divorce or end-of-relationship narratives that you feel made room forSplinters?
There are definitely what I think of as godmother texts for this book, including Elizabeth HardwicksSleepless Nights.
The earliest version of the manuscript ofSplinterswas actually calledRevision Enters the Heart.
I actually think my answer to this question has a lot to do with revision as well.
But you might write the first iteration while youre still quite close, and its still quite raw.
And I dont think thats necessarily a mistake!
For me, there are useful things that come from writing out of proximity.
You still have access to many specific details, youre close to the feelings and their nuances.
Revision as, literally, re-visioning.
I missed my daughter horribly on the nights I was away from her, and I also felt free.
Letting more layers of truth accrue.
Its like introspective bifocals: You see things from far away and close-up at once.
This conversation has been edited and condensed.
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