.LacyMB talks with J_R_Dawson about their magical debut novel TheFirstBrightThing, why we're all so fascinated by circuses, and being a light in dark places when all other lights have gone out.
The First Bright Thing
However, despite its occasionally frightening elements—set in the gap between the two world wars, Dawson’s novel has plenty of hints about the darkness that awaits the world in the coming years and the threats marginalized people like Sparks will face at the hands of Nazis and those like them—is ultimately a story of hope and redemption.
And I was reading books where a lot of the you’re-going-to-be-okay characters were 21-22, and I was like, “Well, I’m going into a new phase of life and I want to see that in the future I’m going to be okay.” And so I made her older than me, and I made her a total badass. And I was like, “Yeah, go after it. You got this, girl.” And I really liked that she was in this mentor space that I had seen a lot of male characters or masculine characters take.
Paste: The premise of Rin’s circus is it’s a circus full of people called “Sparks”, and everybody has their own specific special ability. How did you come up with what everyone could do? I always love writers who build these really intricate worlds that feel like they have existed before I came into the story and will continue well after I exit it.
Paste: Does Maynard get paid more? This is very important to me. [Maynard’s Spark allows him to multiply himself many times over, so he does all the work of physically disassembling and reassembling the circus, along with other jobs.]Paste: I love what you were just saying about Jewish tradition. And stories that… I think it’s not really cool right now in our pop culture to really believe in something.
The scene between Odette and Rin where they’re sitting there talking about what are the things that are worth moving forward for, that came from the night that Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, and my spouse and I were like, “What are we going to do?” And so we just started naming off all of the good things in the world that were worth continuing to try for, so yes.
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