The book was partly inspired by her young son and a tree. ‘He had to say hello and goodbye and hug his tree friend,’ she says.
Sarah Blake’s “Clean Air” offers plenty for readers:
“The ties are really strong to me,” Blake said in a recent video interview. “I was writing about my grandfather’s death 15 years ago but then my mother died and I was working on the revisions having just been through that kind of loss.” I drew on my reactions quite a bit for how they experienced going out in the air; I’m a cougher, which is very frustrating because it’s hard to communicate.
Q. In terms of environmental damage, do you think we will only change our ways after something as dramatic and destructive as The Turning? This book lived in my head for a while once the world popped into my mind. I had a lot of it done before I even started writing. It’s such an enjoyable part for me. My next book is a completely made-up world though it is closest to contemporary time.I love procedurals and murder mysteries. They’re my outlet. I’m re-watching “Elementary” with Lucy Liu and I think they do a really good job with characters. The genre is huge; I find my niches. As a teenager, I’d fall asleep to “Law & Order.
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