Inside the Unconventional Journey Behind Bonny Reichert’s How to Share An Egg: A Candid Interview
Bonny: My sisters are a lot older than me, and they often went off somewhere big, big kids, and I was a little kid. And maybe most of all, my book is very raw and very honest and very probing, and it’s one thing to do that to yourself, but it’s very different to apply that same rigor to someone else. And I didn’t, I didn’t want to do that to them, right? It’s different with my dad, because he wanted this, but my sisters did not ask to be characters in a book. And I was not willing to gloss over things. I love them, and we have a wonderful relationship. But to make those relationships really honest and come to life, I would have had to apply a level of scrutiny that just was not part of my project. I mean, it’s a convention, it’s something people do. I first encountered it and thought it worked on between gods by Allison Pick (Penguin Random House 2015).
