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“But what interests me most here is the lightning, the actual lightning.”
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“Starting in 1899 and continuing into 1966, ten members of the family were struck or very nearly struck by lightning.”
“During the two months immediately following my strike, I experienced an intense identity crisis.”
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“A moonshiner and notoriously cruel adult, he went on to marry three wives and have forty children, all of whom he abused with a riding crop.”
“I told someone this story, along with that of the lightning once at brunch, and they said they couldn’t find direct proof of it, but electricity attracts electricity.”
“The novel’s conceit stems in part from my attempt to grapple with my family’s and my own trauma and what constitutes truth.”
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“I started the process of writing my novel by considering how things might have turned out if all of these women sought revenge against this troubled man and how the upheaval of a near-death experience—and the context of a Jim Crow South—affected him.”
“For the next several hours, wide awake and afraid to move much, I pieced together the facts via Google search and logic: I was only alive by the grace of God and because lightning bypassed my heart and ribs.”
“According to Jacob Stern in a recent Atlantic article, the odds of being struck by lightning in the United States “in a given year are one in 1.2 million,” but I am not the first or only person in my family to be struck.”
“And given that my great-grandfather was also hit by a train and lived to tell, I’ll actively avoid railroads, too, just to be safe.”
“I had to turn off the machine, which runs via an implanted rechargeable battery and a remote control, and go in for repeated reprogramming by my reps—who noted its odd fluctuations—until the stimulator stopped causing additional pain.”
“It emboldened me in ways I still find astonishing, creating a sense—albeit short lived—of invincibility.”
“During a rare SoCal storm, I survived electrocution after I stuck tweezers into a socket in my childhood family room.”