"Usually, an erotic story is told separate from the story of motherhood, but we are still the same people, with the same urges to nurture, urges to disappear, that don't necessarily go away when you're a mother," Minot says.
"I wanted to write about... not a love affair but a love that isn't about practicalities, that's about sensation, that's not always logical. And to choose elements that aren't usually in a love story."
"If there's an operating principle to Minot's writing, it might be summed up as 'the less said the better.' She tried to stick with that mindset while writing Stranger, planning a slim little novel, but..."
"I went to boarding school, an excellent petri dish for a writer... Back then, in the early '70s, we wrote notes; we communicated with songs, poems. I didn't know what was going on around me, within me."
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