Which authors do you see THE YELLOW HOUSE being in conversation with?
Many writers whose primary subjects are home, family, and place. Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns is a seminal text for me. I think of the ways in which John Edgar Wideman was obsessed with Homewood; Edward P. Jones with D.C.; Joan Didion with California; the ways in which W.G. Sebald explored history, trauma, and memory through individual stories that refracted the world at large. Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiography of my Mother taught me how to write about disappearance and absence, as did Nicole Krauss’s work. Toni Morrison, Carson McCullers, and James Baldwin are who I turn to for the sound words make on a page and to inspire bravery.