What does it mean to embrace the legacy of your family, rather than trying to escape it?

When a movie that Cath Moore was writing fell through, she didn't want to let the story go, so she decided to turn it into a novel instead.

And along the way, the central character changed into someone like Cath, wrestling with some of the same questions that Cath was: about family; about skin; and about what it means to be yourself.