Tina begins the interview talking about some of the main themes in her novel like sisterhood and love, and freedom and motherhood. For the major of the interview, Tina discusses the characters and their relationships in the novel’s past and present. In particular, she talks about the expectations of motherhood and what happens to a family when the mother in the family stops being a mother, of listening to her children and loving them. Near the end of the interview, Tina reads several paragraphs from her novel. The interview closes with Tina talking about the power of love in bonding siblings.
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