I'm about a 150 pages in to A Thin Bright... â€� Lucy Jane Bledsoe Q&A

Jennifer Morales asked Lucy Jane Bledsoe:

I'm about a 150 pages in to A Thin Bright Line and I can't put it down! I'm really wondering what percentage of the story is "truth" vs. "fiction" (as a writer sometimes of historical fiction, I put these in quotes for a variety of reasons)? And how did you decide what to be true to in your aunt's story?

Lucy Jane Bledsoe Forgive me, Jennifer Morales, for being so slow in answering this question! Maybe by now you've gotten to the end where I give a lot of detail about what is factual and what is invented. I'm so glad you couldn't put it down! Basically, the entire frame of the story -- the friendships, the girlfriends, the work details, the historical context -- are all factual. I could have written the book as nonfiction, but I wanted to write love scenes and dialogue, and I really couldn't do that as nonfiction. So MOST of it is true. Again, the epilogue will give a fuller answer. Thanks so much for writing.

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