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How to pronounce Emma Pattee: em-ma pa-TEE
Emma Pattee is a climate journalist and fiction writer. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and elsewhere. She lives in Oregon.
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What inspired you to write about a catastrophic earthquake in Portland as the backdrop for Annie's story?
When I was seven months pregnant, I was shopping for a crib at the IKEA in Portland and the building started to shake. The first thought in my mind was that it was the Cascadia earthquake, which is overdue to hit the Pacific Northwest.
It wasn't an earthquake; it was actually a large truck driving by. As soon as I realized I was safe, the idea for the book appeared in my mind.
Annie's pregnancy adds a unique layer of vulnerability to her character. Why did you choose to make her pregnant, and how did that enrich the story for you?
There are so many fascinating ways that a pregnancy and a long-awaited earthquake mirror each other. Pregnancy forces us out of our comfortable, controlled lives and into a more vulnerable position. Like an earthquake. We need others when we're pregnant. Like an earthquake. Pregnancy is also something we can never really prepare for, no matter how much we try and how many things we buy. Like an earthquake!
How much research went into the seismic realities and science behind the disaster? Did you learn anything that surprised you?
Because this is a real earthquake I'm writing about, in a real city, it was...
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