“Unearthing Shadows: Kim Liao Reveals the Haunting Secrets Behind ‘Where Every Ghost Has a Name'”
SR: I was particularly moved by how you wrote from your grandmother Anna’s perspective at times, as well as other family members in addition to your own first-person perspective. What motivated you to include these perspectives? How did your research inform those sections?
KL: Several of my family members became point of view characters, since I wanted the book to read like a nonfictional novel. Most of those reconstructed history scenes were based on oral history interviews with my aunts and uncles, which I recorded and had transcribed, to try to get as many of the historical details right as possible. However, Grandma Anna and Grandpa Thomas are no longer with us, so making the leap in their psyches was an imaginative leap.
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