“Unraveling Secrets of the Heart: Deborah Derrickson Kossmann’s Journey in ‘Lost Found Kept’ Reveals the Power of Redemption”
LL: I found a good deal of metaphor with water throughout the pages of Lost Found Kept. Immediately, I noted your mother had a copy of The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacqueline Mitchard, in the house, water-logged and ruined. Later, it’s mentioned that as a child, a school assignment of yours was to create a map of something, and your mother immediately thought to create a map of the ocean floor with clay.
The project, as so many childhood assignments, became ‘her’ project. You even recalled anticipatory embarrassment of bringing that to school to turn in…which I think sort of foreshadows your feelings about the house. Mitchard’s book, I might add, is about loss. Loss of a child, in particular. Can you talk a little more about that, please? And other instances in which water and tsunamis come into play?
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