“Unraveling Destiny: Amy Fish Reveals the Secrets Behind ‘One In Six Million’ and Its Unforgettable Journey”
So the book opens with, what was his story? How did he become a genealogist? What brought him to this? And then we go into what is her story? And then in the third act, it’s let’s unravel this mystery.
LL: I know that for a while you were struggling with who the central character was, or who the story was about: Stanley or Maria, and you struggled with finding the right structure.
AF: When I met Stanley and I first conceptualized the book, I thought it would be braided. And the braid I was looking at was one strand Stanley, because he’s a phenomenally interesting character. One strand Maria, and the mystery of how she went from being this baby in a ditch to this grown woman in Siberia and how her history got unraveled. And I had a third strand, which was about my great uncle up until his death, or around the time of his death, maybe the timeline would have been the days of Shiva, and then reflecting on his achievements as well. And then in that third strand, it would be almost memoir because it would be about my relationship with my uncle.
