My Mom is horrified that I make it sound like we lived in a shanty town, and my boyfriend is horrified that I used to get chiggers. A Stolen Tongue is so narratively driven. My mother encouraged me to tell her stories that she would transcribe, so I grew up with a false idea that an audience existed for my work.
Every writer is, on some level, writing autobiographically.
Well, I do feel that A Stolen Tongue is sort of a crypto-confessional novel. I'm obviously not a medieval monk, but I am just as concerned with ideas of faith and death as Felix was. We are both enthusiastists. I had just moved to New York and suffered a complete loss of self. I could be anything any man wanted me to be.