In Plum, Andy Anderegg introduces readers to J, an adolescent whose childhood and teenage years are filled with parental addiction and abuse. Told entirely in the second person, Anderegg’s novel is a gorgeous and heartbreaking standout. The ache leaps off the page and will live long in the minds of readers.
Anderegg’s debut comes after she won Dzanc Books’ Prize for Fiction and was named a finalist for The Clay Reynolds Novella Prize from Texas Review Press.
I chatted with the writer via Zoom about why she wrote Plum and what comes next.
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