I really enjoyed reading your post Lauren! I too found the organisation of the Fond interesting. I loved how you could piece together Kogawa’s drafts and rough work to see how her novel progressed. I particularly liked the part of your post about the poem. I found that seeing little things like that can give a unique perspective on Kogawa’s larger creative possess. Reading your post made me think about an article I read a few years about how J.K Rowling was bored on a delayed train when ideas for Harry Potter came to her and she madly scribbled them down on a few napkins. Reading that came to me as a complete shock to me. I find that it is pretty cool to see how the way writers create famous books isn’t as ‘cut and dry’ as we think.

-Chase T-R