Fiction and Femicide – Writing Characters Who Survive Domestic Violence
Toni Morrison once said: "This is precisely the time when artists go to work.... We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal." With her declaration in mind, and with many of our hearts heavy from a recent spate of lives lost to domestic violence—women whose stories ended too soon—I've found myself thinking about how the subplot of a woman in an abusive relationship is woven through my first three novels: Speak to My Heart, Nothing But the Right Thing and […]








