Visiting my mother-in-law in Fargo, North Dakota, for a week with my husband and three young sons, we woke up one morning in the dark, the windows blanketed with snow. In the case of Orphan Train, that soil was in North Dakota - under about four feet of snow. Sometimes the seeds for a novel are planted in the most unexpected soil. Did you know everything that would happen in the novel when you started, or did you change things as you went along?.Could you tell us about the origins of the first line you wrote for the novel? How did you know you had a first line? Did it come to you fully formed, or did you rework it? Did it end up being the first line of the novel, or of another section?.How did the writing of the book personally affect you?.How does your novel of the Orphan Train differ from other books on the subject?.What was it that was most compelling to you about the idea of an orphan train?.Where does the idea of the novel, two voices talking about loss and solitude, comes from? And why did you choose the story, I guess not so famous as others, of the Orphan Train?.
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