I answered some big questions about why I wrote WHERE ARE YOU NOW? for one of my all-time favorite websites, She Does The City. I’m glad I had the opportunity to think deeply about the book, and share some thoughts about my mother, death, and parenting, in part because I hope my kids will one day find this interview on the internet (instead of, say, all the other stuff I can’t seem to bury…haha).

“There were times, previously, when I felt done with grieving, and other times—like when I was pregnant with my daughter—that I felt a deep sadness, even fear, that having a daughter would remind me too poignantly of her absence.

But when ten years rolled up I was surprised by a new string of words that kept intruding on my thoughts:

‘She gets to come back now.’”

HERE’S THE LINK TO THE FULL ARTICLE.