Exclusive Interview: Josie Adams Reveals Untold Secrets Behind We Thought They’d Never Leave with Tony Shalhoub
MDH: Hilarious! I can see that. I’d like to ask you about the stylistic choices the two of you made. Every family goes through tension, fights, and just generally bad times. Often, in memoir these family trials are the obstacles the narrator must overcome. But your book reads more like a memory book – as in, let’s remember all our best memories (and recipes) from our years together. Can you tell me how you arrived at this approach? Did you have a “typical” reader in mind?
JA: Well, my dad would say that the audience for this book are people afraid of commitment because you can read it chapter by chapter — it’s not a full narrative with a beginning, middle, and end. I think the audience is people who enjoy family stories, cooking, and who aren’t looking for something super heavy. There are great recipes in it that we tested multiple times. I imagine my kids reading this book one day and having a piece of their grandpa forever. My dream would be for people to walk through the airport and pick this up and quickly fall into it, getting a little misty-eyed at parts, but also smile and understand a little bit of themselves and their own families in it.
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