Your story in this year’s Fiction Issue, “Firstborn Immigrant Daughter,” is written in the form of a letter to the firstborn daughter of immigrants. When did you first start thinking of this as the premise for a piece of fiction?
For me, with fiction, the “first thought” is invariably a first line—appearing out of nowhere, clarion clear. I’ve likened the sensation to hearing a lyric from a song that I know but can’t recall. With my novel, “Ghana Must Go,” that…
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