The Reasons Why you wrote your book or books discussion

When I was ten, my mother announced that she was “THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE.” She was twirling her fingers in dainty arcs—to demonstrate the rotation of the entire solar system around her— right there in the front seat of our old Chevy. And she was very convincing—brilliant and bigger than life--but her medical history read like the chapter headings of a psychiatric manual. I started taking notes for a book about her as soon as I learned the alphabet, and before that, I drew hieroglyphics that got me sent to the school nurse. Twenty years later, when I lived in Paris, thousands of miles away from her orbit, a freak boating accident left her in a coma, on death’s waiting list. I rushed home and sat beside her ventilator at a souped-up seaside hospital—thinking of Sunny von Bülow—and admittedly, eyeing the plug. My memoir is a story of genius, madness, ineptitude and collateral damage, with an ending so improbable it could only be the truth. It will be published by Alfred A. Knopf on April 28, 2009, just in time for Mother’s Day. I hope you’ll read the excerpt at www.nancybachrach.com. Please let me know what you think! Regards, Nancy Bachrach

Sounds fabulous...

I think we're both Adirondackers. You're book sounds great.

Hey Nancy. Your book sounds really interesting. I think you and I share something in common. I was looking up your bio on the publisher website and it says you were a TA for a uni philosophy class. I currently find myself TAing for international relations class, on course to get a PhD in IR (in about 8 years from now or some ridiculous number like that)--yet, I find myself obsessively working on my novel in my free time. Do you still have to do the balancing thing with your life? Or are you a full time writer these days?