Hi Laura, just heard her last night (with Laura Zigman) & she spoke exactly to your point - that she begins in a place that responds to the “silence” she calls it that precedes … we don’t know what it is when we start reading, and it only gradually reveals itself. And, yes, it does make those openings compelling. Appreciate your other points, too, the eaves-dropping etc., overhearing a conversation BETWEEN char’s. She also made point, learned from a close priest-friend, that ‘absolution’ always involves 2 people, one cannot absolve oneself. Said thst was when she knew she had the title right!
Hi Laura, just heard her last night (with Laura Zigman) & she spoke exactly to your point - that she begins in a place that responds to the “silence” she calls it that precedes … we don’t know what it is when we start reading, and it only gradually reveals itself. And, yes, it does make those openings compelling. Appreciate your other points, too, the eaves-dropping etc., overhearing a conversation BETWEEN char’s. She also made point, learned from a close priest-friend, that ‘absolution’ always involves 2 people, one cannot absolve oneself. Said thst was when she knew she had the title right!