“Unraveling Secrets of the Heart: Deborah Derrickson Kossmann’s Journey in ‘Lost Found Kept’ Reveals the Power of Redemption”
LL: As for structure, which is nonlinear, you do a wonderful job of pacing and pulling the past into the present, the present into the past. It’s almost as if the two ‘voices,’ merge into one as the book meets the half-way point. I’m curious if you wanted to show this intermingling in those terms, if the child voice and adult voice were part of the overall structure?
DDK: (Laughing) I had a terrible struggle structuring this book and am so happy you feel that way about it! I think many memoirs get what I call “soggy” in the middle or tend to fall flat at the end. I was determined not to let that happen. One of the quotes I couldn’t get permission to use as an epigraph talks about how when you are a child you are surrounded by mirrors reflecting yourself, but when you grow up you see they are windows looking out onto the world.
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