The Dark History of Eastern California: A Conversation
The Los Angeles Review of Books
November 2, 2020
ALEX ESPINOZA: Can you walk me through the genesis of Miracle Country? How did it start?
KENDRA ATLEEWORK: Miracle Country is a reckoning with the idea of home. For me, my home is the biggest and most important part of who I am — the writer self that made this book, but also the self that gardens and cleans the house and watches the mountains as they change every day (I can see them as I write this, fuzzy with rare rain clouds). The process of making the book began during a college writing class where I was assigned to write about grief…