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The Beautiful Daughters: A Novel

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Author One on One with William Kent Krueger and Nicole Baart

Photo credit: Diane Krueger

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William: Were both Midwesterners, and our love of this land we call home is such an important part of the works we create. The landscape of Iowa plays a significant role in The Beautiful Daughters and in so many of your other novels. Could you talk a bit about your affection for this place, and how, in your mind, the land has shaped your characters and their relationships?

Nicole: I grew up in a small town in Iowa and enjoyed the sort of storybook childhood that seems to be reserved for fiction these days--one filled with grand adventures, an array of neighbors and friends, and an abundance of freedom. Imagine my surprise when as a college freshman, my peers thought I was sheltered and provincial.

In the years since, Ive become a Canadian citizen, consider Liberia my second home, and have spent time in Africa, Europe, Central America, and beyond. And though Ive climbed mountains and watched the stars as I floated in midnight oceans, marveled at the bustle of Times Square and enjoyed bush meat cooked over a charcoal fire, I feel like Ive come full circle: my heart belongs in the Midwest.

I think the Midwest is the perfect backdrop for complex, character-driven stories like The Beautiful Daughters because both the people and the landscape are so much more than they seem. The humble characters and mythic geography provide a wealth of often overlooked possibilities. Frederick Manfred, Louise Erdrich, Marilynne Robinson, Joyce Carol Oates, Kurt Vonnegut, and so many others have contributed to the deep canon of literature that highlights this region and its people--for good reason. The Midwest is layered and beautiful, misunderstood and unpretentious. Its secretive and as wide open as the windswept Great Plains.

William: In my own work, Ive often cited a bit of Native American wisdom that speaks of the two wolves constantly fighting in the human spirit. One wolf is fear and the other is love. In this Native wisdom, the wolf that wins the battle is always the one you choose to feed. It seems to me this struggle between fear and love is very much at the heart of The Beautiful Daughters. Or am I crazy?

Nicole: The struggle between fear and love is absolutely central in this book. I think it also plays into the battle between hope and despair. Throughout The Beautiful Daughters, Adri and Harper are motivated by their love--and the fear that their love will go unrequited or that they are unworthy of love or that the person they love will be lost to them. I think their fears are something we can all relate to, and hopefully, their triumphs and mistakes resonate with our own experiences.

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