"There are times when I'm hoping the reader will feel slightly sympathetic. She's in a marriage she should never have made and she's kind of stuck in this swamp. And she is, yes, self-centered and a terrible mother; but she also is misunderstood, I think, at times, and frustrated..."
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On her character Sadie Goodenough from her novel At the Edge of the Orchard in “'I Ate A Lot Of Apples': Tracy Chevalier On Writing Her 'Orchard' Novel” in NPR (2016 Mar 12)
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