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Oct 2005, 368 pages
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May 2006, 384 pages
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This article relates to Maybe A Miracle
Brian Strause was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, and now lives in Silver
Lake, California. In the interview, which you can read in full at
BookBrowse, he answers a number of questions including the inevitable one asked
of first time authors - whether Maybe A Miracle is based on his own
experiences. To which he replies:
"They say to write what you know, but unfortunately the life I've lived isn't
exactly chock-full of drama. And indeed, I grew up in Columbus on an idyllic
street in a storybook neighborhood. But it's not like Blue Velvet,
where it was sordid once you start peeling back the layers. It was all quite
painfully normal. Which is all to say, my own family while incredibly
supportive of me are not particularly helpful when it comes to making up
stories.....In a lot of ways Maybe a Miracle is a sibling love story, but
unfortunately I don't have a sister. Writing this book, though, allowed me to
imagine what that dynamic might be like and by placing his sister in a coma from
the very beginning I figured I'd be giving an eighteen-year-old boy the
opportunity to be reflective about that relationship in a way he otherwise
wouldn't have had. I guess that's what I like most about writing I can put myself into situations
I never would have the opportunity to inhabit in real life. That's what
attracted me to this story. I could throw myself in the middle of a so-called
miracle and see how I might react.'
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