Taking in French, Basque, Spanish, Portuguese, and French-Canadian, our history was always more than a bit player in all of our lives. I come from a family whose ethnic history is to say the least, complex. For the classic fantasy themes of the journey between worlds, the sojourn in strange places, and the sudden irruption of a different reality into the everyday is at the very heart of my own lived experience. Of course I was an imaginative child but it’s only lately that it’s struck me that perhaps there was also another reason why I so took to those genres. In my imagination and my dreams, journeying to those magical worlds seemed to me as natural as breathing. It’s something I responded to instinctively as a young reader, and something I took to easily as a young writer, too. Ever since I can remember, I’ve loved fairy tales, myths, legends, and fantasy.
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