• NORWAY - Interview with author Michelle Grierson

  • Jan 13 2022
  • Length: 56 mins
  • Podcast

NORWAY - Interview with author Michelle Grierson

  • Summary

  • In Conversation with Michelle Grierson, author of Becoming Leidah

     

    Season 03 Episode 04 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast

    We’re so happy to share a truly magical conversation with author Michelle Grierson about her debut novel, Becoming Leidah. This one includes questions from a number of readers and is filled with deeply personal shares and insights.

    ~Lisa

    Lisa Carter
     Founder & Creative Director, Intralingo Inc.

     

    00:00:11 – Introduction

    00:03:00 – Michelle’s Norwegian ancestry and how “blood memory” played a role in telling this story

    00:06:08 – The heart of the book as a mother-daughter story

    00:08:52 – The myth of the Selkies

    00:11:10 – The shapeshifter as the Norse God Odin

    00:12:31 – How the book came to Michelle in “quilt patches”

    00:13:28 – The state of liminality throughout the book

    00:14:58 – Michelle’s use of trines and the Norse cosmology of time

    00:19:05 – The oneness of everything and playing with space on the page

    00:20:56 – Reader is completely engaged from the first paragraph

    00:25:33 – Story structure and the writing process

    00:28:01 – Letting go of a book once it’s published

    00:32:07 – The mother-daughter relationship

    00:37:00 – The father as the villain in this story

    00:41:43 – Two personal things Michelle took away from writing this book

    00:46:09 – Reader takeaways from experiencing this book

     

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