![]() I never envisioned a version where Nadia made a different choice. I knew it was inherently political to write about abortion, but I don’t think I ever thought about it as particularly controversial. How did you approach writing this knowing the controversy surrounding it? ![]() But I had a writing professor ask me, “Why don’t you like her?” And I thought about what Nadia had survived and what she had lost antiheroes are so interesting. She’s prickly, guarded, a smart-mouth, selfish, impulsive-very different from me in a lot of ways. There are some aspects of her personality that are really unlikable. ![]() But her story became the most interesting part, so it moved to the center in a pretty dramatic way. Originally, Nadia was a background character who had this really explosive secret. I wanted to write about a girl who had gotten pregnant with the pastor’s son and had an abortion. I knew young people in the church growing up. She spoke to us about how the book evolved, Atlanta, and what she’s working on next. Bennett will read from the novel at Wrecking Bar as part of A Cappella Book’s Writers The Wrecking Bar series on February 13. ![]()
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