Jeffrey Reads interviews Alice Zorn, author of Colours in Her Hands, about being allergic to the word “favorite,” her influences, and why she wrote her latest book.
Favorite thing to do on a rainy day?
My rainy days are like my sunny days, including my daily walk. I haven’t melted yet.
Aside from the fact that they all take place in Montreal, what’s a common thread that runs through all three of your novels so far?
I write about characters who don’t belong to the mainstream. They’re on the margins — immigrants such Ketia and Nazim in Arrhythmia; Rose who lived in isolation in a cabin in the woods in Five Roses; Fara whose sister’s suicide haunts her and the economically disadvantaged neighborhood of the Pointe (as it was then) in Five Roses; intellectual disability in Colours in Her Hands.
You can read the full interview here.