![]() I went back to the primary documents and transformed them from block quotes into the building blocks of fully realized scenes. To feel my mother’s double losses, one hidden and one in her hands. I wanted the reader to be in the body of a father without his son’s body to bury, holding this piece of him after 12 years of fighting for news. I knew my mother was visiting her parents that holiday and that she had just suffered a miscarriage. The tag was shipped home with a letter to my grandfather just prior to Christmas 1984, the year before I was born. ![]() ![]() That tag falling into my lap was my Newton’s apple moment for the book’s structure.
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