“When I started writing this book I started with place,” she explains.
“The camp was my favorite place in the world.
Its beautiful, its in the mountains, and it has this aura of secrecy and specialness to it.
Credit: William Morrow
But then I totally perverted it and changed everything about it.
is actually completely factually inaccurate.
But Temple struggles more so with the darker side of the religion itself.
“Because you hear about the Catholic priests and you hear about corruption and abuses.
And I thought, listen, inmything we dont have any of that.”
She had an awakening, of sorts, that called into question her relationship to the religion.
TheLightness, which hits shelves on June 16, began as a short story in 2014.
How can you be writing towards someone picking up your galley?”
Temple’s blurbs are, to put it lightly, impressive.
“But then they also are publishing 10 other books.
Maybe the answer is that fewer books should be published?
That we should be paying more attention to the ones that do get published?
But its a business so I dont know how, or if, that would work.”
“First I was going to publish into a pandemic,” Temple says of her book’s timing.
“And now it’s a reminder that I’m publishing into two pandemics and a global uprising.
I’m a white writer and it feels totally not important to push my book on people.”
“I hope there is space for all of it”
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