![]() Before we get to the characters, I want to ask you to tell us about the town, the town that came to you first, Chicasetta. ![]() But if people notice that it seems to be more lyrical, those songs seem to be more lyrical, more poetic, it's because when they came to me, they came to me in very long poem. ![]() HONOREE FANONNE JEFFERS: You know, when I would wake up and the words would come to me, it was almost like a very long prose poem. And there was even a point where her characters started talking to her in her dreams. I asked Jeffers, who is a poet, how she took to writing a work of such length that takes place over centuries. But this book was meant to be an epic, and it is. ![]() Over the span of almost 800 pages, the writer Honoree Fanonne Jeffers traces the story of a family, the town in Georgia where they come from and their migration outward over generations. ![]()
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