It’s just that there are things that interest us, and they stay in the back of our minds.” But I didn’t set out to write a book about these things. So all of these things together have always had me thinking about family, identity, home. “And yes, I’ve moved around quite a bit, lived in three countries, but also I’ve come from a multicultural family where few of us have had quite the same upbringing or even look alike. “I’m always thinking about things like identity and family and shifting concepts of home,” she says. Her nomadic life has impacted the way she writes fiction, she says, noting her interest in multicultural families like her own. (“I like to joke that people go to Italy to study art history or they go for love. Born in New York, Wilkerson moved to Jamaica as a child, which influenced the book (the story follows a Caribbean family) and has lived in Rome for the past 20 years. It’s Wilkerson’s first novel, after a career in journalism and news and communications. Inside the VIP Tent at the 2023 Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic
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