I’m so much more acutely aware of what that means now. I’d read one line and it would hit me hard. I don’t always care to hit topics that way, but it kept waking me up. I was always aware it was part of those women’s lives, but I wasn’t hitting it head-on. I started looking at how I was dealing with race then, and it was very lightly. I was in this neighborhood surrounded by about six different African American churches, I would hear African American kids playing outside, while I was reading the book. This summer, I’d moved to Nashville and was living in a historically black neighborhood, which is very quickly becoming gentrified… At the same time was the Charleston shootings. Number one: I had never read the book since turning it in in 1995. In encountering the material, I found things that still crack me up. It’s been over 20 years, shockingly, and I wanted to revisit it and look at what about me has changed. What do you think it is about the story that made you want to dig it out and jump back in? For starters, "Divine Secrets" is a huge and well-loved story across the board.
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