![]() Maggie is very political, and she’s thoughtful about her privilege throughout the novel even while dealing with this really personal situation. ![]() A lot of the routes she was driving were really just doing a lot of mapping which sounds really boring, but I had a lot of fun with it, actually. Sometimes I would use other pictures, because my imagination doesn’t always go to the visual. I did the street view and walked along or clicked down certain roads that I couldn’t drive down. I used a lot of Google Maps in describing certain areas that I wanted to get right. I feel like what I write best are feelings, but I know how to describe things if I’m directly looking at them. ![]() How did you balance your nonfiction powers of observation with your powers of imagination in this book? You are an acclaimed nonfiction writer, and All My Mother’s Lovers is quite descriptive in its details. I recently called Masad to talk about the role of literature in political spaces and the ways in which children understand their parents. The trip allows her to learn about her mother and about herself in profound ways. ![]() In Ilana Masad’s novel, All My Mother’s Lovers, Maggie Krause decides to skip shiva after her mother’s untimely death instead, she sets out on a road trip to deliver letters included with her mother’s will. ![]()
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