Feb 4, 2009
In a departure from her usual fiction and mystery books, Paretsky turns her pen to her childhood and the significant events that shaped her writing. It’s fascinating stuff. Her eccentric parents moved their family to a secluded part of Lawrence, Kansas and raised her conservatively, keeping her at home to take care of household tasks. Her brother had taught her to read, and she began telling stories from a very young age.
As a graduate student in 1969, Sara remembers being paralyzed by a professor, the first person ever, to ask her what she wanted to do with her life. Having been sent to