For boys-maybe it’s the same for girls, I don’t know-that period in our lives is an important threshold. How personal to you are the memories of 1961 in small town Minnesota?Ī: One of the main motivations for writing Ordinary Grace was the opportunity to explore memories, emotions, and experiences out of my own life when I was, essentially, the age of the story’s narrator, thirteen-year-old Frank Drum. While it’s set in 1961, it doesn’t in any way seem like a period piece or an historical novel. Q: One of the things I found most interesting about this book was the voice. His new novel, Ordinary Grace, is an extraordinary leap – a deepening of previous work. As long as I’ve known him, I’ve been a fan of his work. I’ve known Kent since he invited himself to the store when his first novel, Iron Lake, was published in 1998.
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