![]() Gather the Daughters was only about 50,000 words in its first iteration. I also owe a lot of the plot to my editor. In a sense, my characters began taking control of themselves. I wish I could say there was a process for how I got there, but I just wrote, and it kind of happened. I didn't know Janey would be so ferocious, or Amanda so headstrong, or Caitlin so sweet. I already knew some things about the four main characters, but I had no idea how they would pan out. Writing Gather the Daughters took three years, total. However, it was the research on child abuse that really helped me flourish out the bones of the society, and how children might respond to it. So really the plot has been swimming inside my head for eighteen years. JM: The kernel of Gather the Daughters came to me a very, very long time ago: the girls, and the church, and the island. ![]() How long did it take you to develop the plot and write the book once you had your inspiration? ![]() SA: I read where you first got the idea based off an anthropological paper on corporal discipline in different societies and how in some places behaviors that we would consider abuse are viewed as perfectly normal. Kourtney Dyson, (co-curator and one of my favorite book babes) and I were fortunate enough to recently chat with Jennie about the inspiration behind her phenomenal debut and what is in store down the road for the girls from the island. ![]() ![]() We had a great month this month with our Salt Water Reads bookclub pick, Gather The Daughters by Jennie Melamed. ![]()
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