The author talks about her acclaimed new novel, Kick The Latch – a concise study of time, trauma and the nomadic magic of the Midwest
, for example, Leslie Jamison wrote that you were “insistently drawn to ordinariness”. Would you say this is true?
KS: I really don’t feel that way. I actually feel, in art, that things can have a more powerful impact when they’re told in a restrained way. But also I was so interested to hear how she was delivering this information. I was compelled by the way she delivered those stories. And I wouldn’t have thought of pressing her on that – there’s a lot to receive as a listener or as a reader from a story that’s delivered in that way.
DS: Did talking to Sonia, and watching her reflect on her life, change your perception? I know there were some similarities in your upbringing. DS: Animals do seem to be a recurring theme in your work – you write about them with such empathy here, and they’re also integral to your short story collectionKS: I think they’re as interesting as people are. And I think we have everything to learn from how we interact with them and how we think of them – or don’t think of them. But I hesitate at the idea of them teaching us things, though they can teach us what it means to be not human.
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