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Describe your book.
My book,
Killing It, is about life, death, love, and dinner, and the complexity that lies between each. It’s also about loss and sacrifice, about invention and reinvention, about ethics and morality, success and failure, and curiosity too. It’s about asking questions and doing hard things in order to become a better person, and the difficult choices we have to make (and should be forced to make) in order to become that better person. It’s about chasing the genuine article and sometimes realizing the genuine article is elusive at best.
What was your favorite book as a child?
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell. I write about this early on in my book, actually. As a kid I liked the idea of being all alone on an island, assuming traditionally male tasks out of necessity, like hunting and fishing and carving canoes...