Brian strause biography

This article relates to Maybe A Miracle. In the interview, which you can read in full at BookBrowse, he answers a number of questions including the inevitable one asked of first time authors - whether Maybe A Miracle is based on his own experiences. To which he replies: "They say to write what you know, but unfortunately the life I've lived isn't exactly chock-full of drama.

And indeed, I grew up in Columbus on an idyllic street in a storybook neighborhood. But it's not like Blue Velvet, where it was sordid once you start peeling back the layers.

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It was all quite painfully normal. In a lot of ways Maybe a Miracle is a sibling love story, but unfortunately I don't have a sister. Writing this book, though, allowed me to imagine what that dynamic might be like and by placing his sister in a coma from the very beginning I figured I'd be giving an eighteen-year-old boy the opportunity to be reflective about that relationship in a way he otherwise wouldn't have had.

That's what attracted me to this story. I could throw myself in the middle of a so-called miracle and see how I might react. It first ran in the November 30, issue of BookBrowse Recommends.