Novelists are often asked whether the book comes from their own experiences. The answer can be complex. For even when the story is not autobiographical, there is a thread of who we are and what we've experienced running underneath. After writing Godshot, Chelsea Bieker realized that her separation from her mother when she was a child, and the course of their severed relationship, led her to explore the themes of separation through fiction. Join us to talk about how her loss has influenced her life and her art and what came out in the book. How did she come to realize that in a book of fiction, she was exploring her own story?