The novel follows Lydia, a mother in her 30s from a middle-class background working as a bookseller – along with her young son Luca. I hesitated to get fully into the point of view of a migrant, but eventually I realised that was the only appropriate lens for the telling of the story.” “For a long time, I thought maybe it would be a round robin point of view, I would tell lots of different stories. To make up for that lack of experience, she researched the areas heavily – starting well before there was talk of building a wall on the border. I wrote two completely failed drafts before I gave up my hesitation and really ploughed headlong into telling the story I really knew needed to be told.” “The draft that made it into what became the novel was the third attempt of writing this book. Photo: AFPĬummins tells Kathryn Ryan she was hesitant to write from the point of view of a migrant when it wasn’t her lived experience. Undocumented migrants climb on a train known as "La Bestia".
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