The writer and forevermagnyc editor-in-chief's debut short story collection reads like one long drag on an impossibly addictive candy-flavored vape.
, she started noticing throughlines and characters that repeated, “probably just because they repeated in my life,” she says. It’s not a coincidence, for instance, that a lot of the characters have single moms, which Cash also has. became a book in and of itself about a year ago. Now that the stories are collected, Cash is faced with having to talk about what her book as a whole is about – a question she and the book actively resist.
“The book is really stubborn to me,” Cash says. “I wanted to not give anyone anything. There are all these rules you learn in writing school and I was like, ‘What if I just break all of them, and see if I can still get a book published?’ It's an inside joke with myself.” One of these greater looming forces that Cash doesn’t have to come out and say but is as persistent as the nitrogen dioxide haze of Los Angeles, is climate change.
“When you're boiled by the internet, then it's sort of just you're your own enemy or you're boiling yourself, which I feel like was what it is to be a young girl,” Cash says. “You're constantly shooting yourself in the foot.”offers a taste of societal collapse like a spoonful of caviar from the Suez canal, the book is not nihilistic: It’s life-affirming. In fact, it’s quite sweet.
similarly shirks rules because so many things matter more than rules. Recently, Cash was surprised to receive fan email from a Harvard student.
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