![]() ![]() Was the setting of the novel influenced by New Orleans at all? ![]() The book takes place in an unnamed city, but there seem to be some hints that it might be inspired by your hometown. So those things all together just triggered in me this desire to write a story that would tell the complexities of being a black person in America, trying to live your life. 3 was poor Trayvon Martin, and that whole era when America is seeing what happens to this kid, and me watching the divided perspectives on what happened: people saying that he deserved what he got, and people saying he was just a child who was murdered by an adult. And then I had this character who had appeared in some vignettes I had written, not complete stories, and I loved his voice and his perspective so much, his way of approaching the world, but I didn’t have a story for him. I remember reading the book and thinking, “This is the first time I’ve seen the experience of a black man depicted in fiction so well.” As a writer, I always wanted to do that myself somehow. One is “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, which I read in my early 20s. What was the origin of “We Cast a Shadow”? How did that premise initially occur to you? ![]()
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