Dobbs and Skloot discuss structure

Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells multiple stories and jumps around in time. On the Open Notebook site, Skloot tells David Dobbs how she made it work. "As soon as I realized I had to structure the book in a disjointed way, I went to a local bookseller, explained the story to her and said, Find me any novel you can find that takes place in multiple time periods, with multiple characters and voices, and jumps around a lot. So she did."

December 25, 2011

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