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Author Jessica Kingley expressed regret Monday that she had “pretty much used up all the hardship” from her early life in her recent first novel Bitter Root, leaving her nothing to write about for her follow-up book.
“In writing Bitter Root, I drew heavily on my experiences growing up poor and neglected by my alcoholic parents in an economically depressed small town in southern Oklahoma,” the 36-year-old Kingley said. “Apparently, I drew a little too heavily, because I don’t have any personal trials and tribulations left for the next one.”
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