🎙️ Here’s a clip from the newest episode of Mind of Sai Marie —featuring the luminous Debby Show in a soul-stirring dialogue on the healing power of fiction and the sacred act of writing stories.
This week, the Mind of Sai Marie podcast is honored to welcome Debby Show for a profound conversation on family, truth, and the legacy of storytelling. You can listen now on my Substack, or tune in via RSS on your favorite podcast platform.
📚 On 11/3, Debby joins me to discuss her debut novel, Paper Roses—a deeply personal excavation of how shared history can shape siblings in radically divergent ways. Inspired by her sister Tracii’s crimes and her mother’s wartime childhood in Morocco, Paper Roses is the culmination of four years of interviews, research, and emotional reckoning.
This episode dives into the marrow of generational trauma, the resilience born from truth-telling, and the craft of transforming lived experience into literary legacy.
00:00That's an inventive way to do things. Sounds like an interesting narrative already. How did you balance, or rather, excuse me, how do you navigate the emotional labor of writing about trauma, memory, and family rupture?
00:11Yeah, I think this is where fiction really helped a lot. Because if I was writing, I think if I was writing a memoir, I don't think it ever would have ended. And I think writing fiction, you get to put a man whole cover on some of those emotions. And you can make it, you can give a different ending.
00:27I mean, the ending for Nikki, who is Tracy, in my book, is very different than Tracy's ending. And, you know, I got to send her to juvenile hall. I got to do some things that were really healing. My dad got a really good edit. My dad's ending was a really great edit. He didn't, it wasn't quite as sad as it was in real life. So it was very healing.
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