Exclusive Interview: Rebecca McClanahan Reveals the Hidden Inspirations Behind "Light Falls On Everything"
RM: The act of shaping the present-tense raw emotions into a written text deepened my understanding of our situation, and I feel that is the case for most writers. Once we write the first word, we begin to translate the physical, wordless experience into a new language. As I wrote my way into the text, my parents became not only my flesh-and-blood parents, they also became those “figures” that van Gogh wrote about “. . . moving across the ground” of his paintings, except for me, they were moving across the ground of my story. Of our story, I mean, for it was a story we shared, each of us a character like so many others who move across the landscape of their own caregiving experience.
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