the importance of highlighting stories of enslaved people, especially in the context of a prestigious university, and what she hopes readers will take away from her novel.Editor’s Note: From the outset, I conceived of a character that was saddled with regret and guilt. She is looking for forgiveness in the facts leading up to her brother’s death, and once she starts hearing the voices of the ghosts, she is looking for redemption from them. What I realized while I was writing it was that she would have to find that absolution from within herself. people began worrying about the possibility that the film would bewhitewashed “But now, because I guess people with higher libidos than I are also working on less of a schedule, it’s a weird nudes roulette every time I pick up my phone.”Twitter contentView on Twitter