Moral imagination demands a certain kind of story Back in 2014 I began writing a novel about an unlikely friendship between two girls of starkly different backgrounds. Lorena Saenz is the brilliant daughter of a single mother from Honduras, while her classmate Jenny Stallworth has grown up in a world of affluence and ease. As I originally conceived of it, the book would be a family drama in which Lorena gets pulled into the glamorous and deceitful orbit of the … [Read more...] about Why I Wrote a Social Novel