Maya Shanbhag Lang discusses the first pages of her bestselling memoir, What We Carry, how her prologue hooks the reader by ensuring that what we’re reading matters, how she navigated narrative intrusion, and how she discovered where to begin (again) with some prompting from her editor and her own insight into what her book was really about.
Fabulous! I can't wait to get my hands on this book. Her subject is similar to my book, though we come at it in entirely different ways. Also, her comment about ending a book hit me in the gut, "How do I land this plane." I've been nauseous in that plane with every book.
Fabulous! I can't wait to get my hands on this book. Her subject is similar to my book, though we come at it in entirely different ways. Also, her comment about ending a book hit me in the gut, "How do I land this plane." I've been nauseous in that plane with every book.