"In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family..." — Ann Hood

I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time in my own life. I experienced myself as more dramatically troubled than I was, but I just remember how it felt.

I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.