Inside the Unconventional Journey Behind Bonny Reichert’s How to Share An Egg: A Candid Interview
Amy: And how has their reception been now that it’s out?
Bonny: Good, yeah, great. They’re very proud. I think,
Amy: Were there any scenes you wanted to include that got edited out? We talked about recipes, anything else?
Bonny: Recipes, I voluntarily took out. We wanted it to be a sweeping propulsive read and they were like speed bumps. Yes, in my first draft, the first third of the book was very detailed and there was a lot more. There was a scene with my best friend, this book does not have a lot of extraneous characters. There was a best friend and there was a scene where my best friend was from Dundas [in Ontario], we were in university and I was feeling displaced, I was from Edmonton, I had decided to spend the summer in Toronto and I went to her place one weekend and I came in from swimming and her mum was in the kitchen, her mum was Belgian, and she was in the kitchen making mayonnaise. And I had a very detailed scene watching her make mayonnaise and how it made me feel and how I felt connected to her.
