Last month, I appeared on Shawn Mooney‘s YouTube channel, Shawn Breathes Books, to discuss epigraphs, and in particular the one I chose for The Family Way. It’s a quote from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
Shawn invited me because the same year he read my book he also read Birding by British author Rose Ruane. It, too, has the same epigraph (it’s quite a popular quote, I’m sure there are others out there). Shawn thought it might be interesting to have Rose and I read each other’s books and then have a discussion about the purposes of epigraphs and how we both interpret ours.
You can watch the discussion below.