An Interview with Kristen-Paige Madonia
by Sharon Harrigan
“People tell me I can only say I accidentally wrote a YA novel once”: Kristen-Paige Madonia chats with Sharon Harrigan about YA lit and her new novel, Invisible Fault Lines.
Sharon Harrigan has published over 50 stories and essays in places such as Narrative, Pleaides, and Virginia Quarterly Review. She teaches creative writing at WriterHouse in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“People tell me I can only say I accidentally wrote a YA novel once”: Kristen-Paige Madonia chats with Sharon Harrigan about YA lit and her new novel, Invisible Fault Lines.
Virginia Pye’s debut novel, River of Dust (Unbridled Books), was an Indie Next Pick for May 2013. Carolyn See, in the Washington Post, called it “mysterious, exotic, creepy—everything ignorant foreigners used to believe China to be.” And in his blurb, Robert Olen Butler hailed the novel as “a major book by a splendid writer.” River of Dust is a gripping historical adventure, set in rural China in 1910, which opens with a parent’s worst fear: kidnapping. The book is also a lyrical psychological and spiritual meditation, as the search for the American missionary couple’s stolen son becomes nothing less than a search for “the […]
