The Rockridge writer’s new work spins a yarn about a cast of characters in an afterlife people hope to avoid.
The closest she’d come to personal literary expression were occasional op-eds and “Where Girls Come First,” a nonfiction book blending the history of U.S. girls’ schools with her experience as one of the co-founders in 1999 of the Julia Morgan School for Girls, an all-girl middle school in Oakland.
In an interview, DeBare said she began to think about writing large-frame historical fiction in 2014 but was daunted by the prospect of writing convincingly about an era other than her own. She says eventually she decided writing about characters who find themselves in the Christian hell would be easier.
“I needed to understand all these characters; what they’d be remembering, what they’d be missing, the work they did, the marriages they had, their conceptions of the afterlife.” “Initially, my landscape of hell was more detailed than she was. I put her in different situations,” DeBare said. “I wrote about who she was, her background and stuff that isn’t in the book.
From a storytelling viewpoint, Ben having no bad intentions and Annie’s parents raising them with equal love and support lent depth and relatability to the “rivalry” that is more imagined than real. Other moments had her thinking about life changes, family, religion, justice and the afterworld. She retired from her job at the Golden Gate Audubon Society, her daughter finished college, her father died.
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