![]() ![]() That meant ensuring that Valerie (who is African American) and Xavier (who is biracial) both were in every way as authentic as my white characters, which meant doing extensive research into the reported experiences of Black people in contemporary America - direct accounts, not summaries from research articles, say.Īlso, I wrote about my own culture, versus attempting to represent a culture I hadn’t experienced at length. So I tried hard to follow the advice and was mindful of the complaints I’d heard or read from people of color regarding the mistakes white authors have made in the past. It has become fraught territory, for sure. ![]() ![]() When writing the character of Valerie, what steps did you take to ensure the novel avoided some of the highly publicized perils of writing across differences? Writing across differences remains a hot topic in 2020 thanks to American Dirt. ![]()
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