![]() ![]() Maybe like making an accidentally cohesive mosaic. That sort of came about of its own accord. I didn’t think of a web while writing it. I knew I wanted it to be a novel and not a collection of stories calling itself a novel. Of course, making it work and successfully braiding, or webbing, the thing was difficult. I was convinced of it enough to write into it for the next six years. It was the strangest thing: I could see the whole thing at once. ![]() Could you tell me about how you came about the structure of the book, and maybe talk a little about spiders?"ĪNSWER FROM TOMMY: "I thought of the structure for this novel from the very outset, before I even started writing it. I've thought about it on and off since reading it. Home and trap." I am so taken with this passage. In the book you write of a mother not allowing her children to kill spiders: "Spiders carry miles of web in their bodies, miles of story, miles of potential home and trap. ![]() At times I want to call it a braid, but other times it feels like a spider's web, each strand resonating with and sending mild disturbances to what came before. QUESTION FROM INTERVIEWER: "You've done something gorgeous with the structure of this novel. ![]() QUESTION FROM INTERVIEWER: "You've done somethi …more I found an article where Tommy Orange addresses this question. Andrea I found an article where Tommy Orange addresses this question. ![]()
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