Kimberly Brock is more thrilled and grateful to be published than any writer I’ve met. Her enthusiasm as a reader is infectious, and her passion for writing comes through in her debut- a fabulous book of historical fiction that rides smoothly between the days of Virginia’s Lost Colony and the present. She is brimming with fabulous ideas and insights which portends a glorious future in publishing.
Kimberly: I think a lot of women’s history is the same. “She” got married, she had a baby and she disappeared and I wanted to tell Eleanor’s story. You’ve been talking about how our cultures and stories assimilate and mix with each other over time and history. Stories get lost. And even though a lot of this is fiction, it's based on history, on trade paths. I wanted to follow this story of a woman, to see where she started out and where she ended up, and then to imagine her daughter and the daughters that came after her…I think this story is very much a mother-daughter story because it asks questions we all ask our mothers. Who am I? Who are you? What has your life been? And how does that affect me?
Adriana: And where did we come from? I don’t know if your family does this, but we tape things on the bottom of dishes, so that we’ll know who it belonged to before us. What you do, is you do that with American History. You turn over an actual rock and you say, “This is the glue.” You have a lot of work to do, because women have been written out of history. And little by little, through research and historical fiction, we can correct it. Now, usually, women get written out when they [men] don’t like what she stands for, and when they’re trying to cover up wrongdoings (murders, land grabs, crimes against indigionous people, crimes against black people, we can keep going…)
Kimberly: It's about disappearing or being disappeared, right?
Adriana: Yes, but it's not sad because you’re telling the story.
Kimberly: Eleanor is where the fiction comes in, about how women preserve their origins through oral tales, what mothers pass onto their daughters. I thought, who is this? Who is telling this story? And then, one night I woke up and I realized, it's coming from a mother. She’s telling her daughter. And you were talking about stories needing to be told, and that's what I landed on. I want everyone to come up with a story for Eleanor, whether it's true or not, because at least she is being remembered.
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