Authors / Interviews
Interview with Kerri ní Dochartaigh, author of Cacophony of Bone: The Circle of a Year
Milkweed Staff (MS): In your first book, Thin Places, you write about being born during the height of the Troubles in Ireland. In that book, you asked readers to reclaim our landscape through language and to remember that the land we fight over is much more than lines on a map. In Cacophony of Bone, you write about another time of great upheaval and trauma: the global pandemic of 2020. How do you connect these two books in your mind?
Kerri ní Dochartaigh (KnD): When I first spoke to my British editor after acquisition, he told me…