Inside the Unconventional Journey Behind Bonny Reichert’s How to Share An Egg: A Candid Interview
Amy: That’s so great.
(Then we moved to official questions I had prepared)
Amy: So Hippocampus Magazine is a magazine for writers. Our readers are mostly writers, and we always want to know about your journey to publication.
Bonny: I love to talk about that.
Amy: So tell us, how did this book get from being an idea you had, to a book that we could hold in our hands?
Bonny: When I was a child, my dad used to say to me, “one day you’ll write my story, one day, you’ll write my story.” He’s a Holocaust survivor and he’s 94 now. He’s still with us, and he’s just an incredible human being. And I wanted nothing more than to write his story and it was an honor, right? I have three older sisters, and I felt chosen, and I was the writer in the family, and I felt wonderful, but I was terrified. I knew what had happened to him, and I knew some specific stories, but I knew enough to know that I didn’t know everything. And if I were to put myself inside of everything, I would never sleep again. I already had nightmares. I had a built in fear.
