LRR: How was the writing process for you?ĮC: Farsighted is the first novel I’ve felt good about enough to publish, but I actually wrote another book before it (last year). I didn’t want him to be alone in his psychic subculture, so I found other characters with other powers to keep him company. I started thinking about what it would be like to have non-visual visions of the future and began forming a modern Tieresias in my mind. At the time, my book club was reading The Odyssey, which features the blind Theban prophet, Tieresias. I felt the glasses made me look blind but found it so weird that there was still a clear image within them it seemed so contradictory. Something about my image really struck me in an almost horrific way. I was daydreaming while my husband drove us across Michigan for my sister’s wedding. LRR: What inspired you to write "Farsighted"?ĮC: Everything started with a single image-my face in these tacky oversized sunglasses reflecting out at me from the car’s side mirror.
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