Unfolding Secrets: Jill Christman Reveals the Hidden Truths Behind The Heart Folds Early
Interviewed By Nan J. Bauer
There’s an essay in Jill Christman’s If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays where she describes the time her daughter, four years old at the time, rammed a googly eye up her nose. Detecting and extracting the eye is harrowing business. It’s also hilarious. And it’s vintage Christman, a showcase for her razor-honed powers of observation, fearless honesty, and appreciation of the absurd.
