Evbu My Love was the novel of Molara Wood’s teenage years.

Author, curator, editor and journalist, Molara Wood, believes good writing, ‘is not just about stringing words together.’ For Wood, ‘it’s about the imagination, a sensibility, a way of seeing the world.’ Our questions are italicized. What books or kinds of books did you read growing up? I read extensively in my youth, and in a sense my reading life as an adult is just playing catch up to that time in my childhood when I read purely for the joy and wonder of the story. I read

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