
I have good relationships with my daughters, but I got to thinking about a father-daughter relationship that had gone wrong, that had given the daughter reason to be bitter, and angry at her father.
In his novel, The Man With The Golden Arm, Nelson Algren said (I’m paraphrasing) that those closest to our hearts tread heaviest upon them. From this seemingly simple statement of fact springs, I believe, much if not all of human drama. Algren’s words have resonated with me since I read them over twenty years ago. It is a given that we hurt each other. But it is equally true, I believe, that redemption is offered to us, often in ways that we would never have imagined possible.
These thoughts were the genesis of A World I Never Made. I started with the idea of a father and daughter who are not completely estranged but who have longstanding and unresolved feelings of anger and recrimination. It sometimes takes a great and dangerous storm to clear these feelings away and thus the thriller genre and its terrorism component. A World I Never Made started in my mind with its characters and their need for redemption. The fast paced plot came second, although it was great fun to write.
Thanks so much Jim for guest posting today! And also a big thanks to TLC Book Tours. Please stop by some of the other tour stops for A World I Never Made:
- Monday, June 8th: Musings of a Bookish Kitty
- Thursday, June 11th: Under the Boardwalk
- Monday, June 15th: The Printed Page
- Thursday, June 18th: Life in the Thumb
- Monday, June 22nd: Alvah’s Books
- Tuesday, June 23rd: The Bookworm
- Thursday, June 25th: Jen’s Book Thoughts
- Tuesday, June 30th: Beth Fish Reads
1 comments:
Great post. It must be interesting to write about an experience so far from your own with respect to father-daughter relationships.
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