![]() With my previous novel, Cutting for Stone, I began only with the location-Ethiopia-and an image of a nun giving birth to twins I also knew that the voice telling the story would be antique and nostalgia tinged. I had some elements in my head before I began the two most important were location-Kerala-and a fictional family afflicted by an inherited disorder that predisposed them to drowning, the Parambil family. ![]() When I put up the whiteboard, it was because I was determined to plot out the new novel ( The Covenant of Water) as best I could. ![]() The furniture I once had was all gone, and the room felt better for it! I have always resented formal living rooms, seeing them as mausoleums for expensive furniture that no one ever sits on, a total waste. By contrast, the living room is flooded with light at dawn, and it is spacious. That study was cozy but on the small side and didn’t get much sun till late in the day. Prior to that, I worked in a downstairs study that has built-in bookcases from floor to ceiling on two of the four walls. ![]() But, you see, I appropriated the living room as my workspace when I found myself living alone with my youngest son. My whiteboard occupies one wall in my living room, which might seem a strange place for it. ![]()
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