'Novels can offer readers a chance to have discussions about divisive or difficult topics in a way that I’m not sure nonfiction always does.”
Every state has a literary pedigree, but very few can compete with Maine when it comes to examining the American psyche. From E.B. White to, “Down East” has proved fruitful soil for both majesty and madness in the land of literature. This spring, the Pine Tree State adds another major talent to its writing pool with the publication of Kate Elizabeth Russell’s taboo shattering debut,.
Despite a few autobiographical similarities between the author and her protagonist, Russell doesn’t want readers confusing her fiction for a veiled memoir. “Novels, especially coming-of-age novels by young women, tend to be read as being autobiographical,” she says. “But this is not my story, it’s fiction, and it does a disservice to the reader to see it otherwise.
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