Leaving behind her safe East Coast life, the main character, Indie Brown, returns to her Arizona hometown to face her mother, who is slowly killing herself, and her sister who literally holds her young daughter's life in her hands. From her home in Ocean Beach, Calif., T. Greenwood talked with ChickClick about her novels and writing. Both of your novels explore women on the verge of finding their own strength. I think that there is a terrible trend lately in fiction of exploiting the idea of woman as victim. Women are victimized.
Terrible things happen to women, and children and men, every day.
However, what interests me more than mere survival is how we as humans can transcend our histories and pain to become somehow evolved. Both narrators are young women who are haunted by events in their pasts. They are also both paralyzed by a certain sense of culpability. However, to me their personalities are very different. Effie's survival mechanism was to disappear, to fade away, both literally and metaphorically.