Which character do you identify with?

I was reading the interview with the author and thought this was an interesting response to the question about the difficulty of not getting depressed when you write a story like this. Here is what Kim Edwards had to say:

"Well, the characters all struggle, don’t they? They walk through a lot of darkness. Yet I never found writing this book painful. In part, I think, because I identified with all the characters in this book: the one who keeps a secret and the one from whom secrets have been kept; the parent who longs for a child and the child who longs for harmony and wholeness; the wanderer and the one who stays in place. I recognized their journeys of self-discovery, in any case. I was interested in them, and I wanted to know what happened to them, and who they were. The only way to discover all that was to write the book. Also, because the novel is told through four different points of view, moving from one character’s mind to another, I was able step back from one point of view and work on another whenever I was stuck. This was very liberating, and allowed me to attain a certain level of detachment from one character while working on another."

I liked this method of using different points of view.

I asked the question but I'm not ready to answer it yet..... Aunt Pat

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Thanks, Bethany!

I think we are set up so hopefully all can begin to contribute. I am curious to know if you enjoyed the book and which questions you want to respond to. If the posts here don't get you started, go to the discussion questions at the back of your book or the ones Bethany directed us to. Love to all of you! If this shows up signed by Pat and Bo that means I am still working on the separate log ons. I'm a bit boggled by Google on all this.

Blogger Confusion

Blogger was bought out by Google recently and now is offering to upgrade to new Blogger accounts. The new blogger accounts have some cooler options but everyone would have to create a new account to access the Brockman-Yates Book Club blog if I upgrade it. Does anyone mind if I switch to the new blog accounts? Is this all too complicated? Let me know and we can just leave it be.