This idea-that women are a threat to the status quo and therefore dangerous-was something I played with a lot in the book. We discover that women have been oppressed not because they’re seen as weak but because men are afraid of them. One of my favorite details in Grace and Fury is a tidbit about the history of the patriarchal world. And the difficulty of trying to be your own person when everyone around you is telling you to follow the crowd. But I do know how heavy the weight of expectation can feel. Or how truly terrifying it is to be forced to fight to the death.
There’s an old adage that a writer should “write what you know.” I don’t know what it’s like to not be allowed to read, as in Grace and Fury. Because of that night, Serina and Nomi, Grace and Fury’s main characters, were born into a world that oppressed them and dismissed them at every turn. Grace and Fury was born out of the disappointment and anger I felt that night. And now here we were, shattering the glass ceiling once and for all. Women had been fighting for this moment for so long. I may have been late to the party, as it were, but I was 100% ready for a female president. A woman! I’m not that old and yet I remember so much casual sexism growing up, so many lessons I was taught that, in hindsight, were about preserving the patriarchy, not my safety or well-being. A woman was about to be elected president of the United States. On the night of November 8 th, 2016, I was poised to celebrate.
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