'I definitely think I might not be writing about Philadelphia ... if I didn’t have that sense of being exiled and displaced from home,' said author Una Mannion, who grew up in Valley Forge.
Una Mannion, the novelist and poet, grew up outside Philadelphia in Valley Forge, but it wasn’t until she’d lived in Ireland for decades, that she started writing about the city she knew in her youth., about a family living in a woodsy pocket of Valley Forge, with scenes of teens sneaking around the Nike site and working at the King of Prussia mall.
You write about ‘how people in Philly spoke … fast, blurted out, unconscious.’ Tell me about capturing voices that are really specific to place in your novels. I always say this: When I take New Jersey Transit from New York, everyone is reading their papers. Then I switch onto SEPTA in Trenton, and people are talking and people are voicing opinions, even when it’s not invited. I always think, Oh, I’m home. I feel like something’s quite raw and generous in the Philadelphia persona.It’s hard for me not to write about the Philadelphia area. I had such formative years there.
With the history of the Revolutionary War, the Lenape before that, these places carry all that freight of meaning. I think when you start looking at a place, it begins to give things back to you.
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