by Martha Anne Toll
Despite vast differences in wealth, status, ancestry, time, and setting, the eight-year-old girl in John Singer Sargent’s The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit haunts me. Why? Continue reading
by Martha Anne Toll
“I know almost nothing about literary scenes anywhere. The greater part of my days are spent alone in a room.” Continue reading
by Martha Anne Toll
Weinzweig published her first novel at age fifty-eight. Given her mastery of the form, it is tempting to speculate that in a different era, she might have been able to take her writing seriously at an earlier age. Continue reading
by Martha Anne Toll
“I inhabit a liminal space between . . . overlapping worlds and find this convergent space ripe with possibility. I’m consistently energized by these intersections and frictions.” Continue reading
by Martha Anne Toll
“[W]hat drew me to this particular time and place in history was the intense duress under which the average person was forced to live. These were people we might know; people we might imagine to be.” Continue reading
by Martha Anne Toll
“I wanted to include September 11th, I wanted the Cuban parallels. I didn’t want the reader to think it was a story that happened years ago, one we were not responsible for today. Yes, we are all responsible.” Continue reading
by Martha Anne Toll
“I wanted above all else to be authentic and true to the people in the novel, to the birth mothers and social workers, foster carers, black men and Irish men, to everyone.” Continue reading
