Bronx-born, Miami-based Andrew Boryga was working on his debut novel…but something wasn’t working. He knew his main characters like the back of his hand, but he was still struggling to find the plot of the novel. Rather than continue to look within, he looked around to society—and realized a lot of what he saw didn’t jive with him. This dichotomy between his own experience and the narrative being given by others to his own experiences is what gave him the fire he needed to write this inventive satirical novel that will undoubtedly make a lot of people laugh, and a lot of people mad.
It was so great to catch up with my old MFA pal and talk about boundary pushing influences, the rewriting process, and how parenthood changes you as a writer.
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