Unlike most serial killer novels, Ivy Pochoda's “These Women” centers on the victims. “I was a little tired of the fetishization of serial killers,” she explains.
“When I found out who he was, it was like —” Pochoda simply shrugs as she walks. The book was “incredible,” she says, but the killer “was just. And we always know that. It’s not like on TV. [It’s] not ‘Dexter’ or ‘Mindhunter’ or whatever the current show is. He’s some guy you didn’t notice.”
Pochoda then jumps to 2014; Dorian Williams runs a fish shack that provides a respite for “the women on the stroll,” as well as the occasional gaggle of high-school girls, who trigger memories of her daughter Lecia, slaughtered 15 years ago. One of the fish shack regulars, Kathy, regales Dorian with stories from the street. Julianna Vargas, whom Lecia once babysat, now gives lap dances at a dismal club and takes photographs of her friends on the side.
Walking briskly in her white sneakers and wide-legged jeans, Pochoda is familiar with the largely African American Jefferson Park and surrounding areas. She points out businesses that she re-created with some alterations in the book, including a Belizean fish shack and a boxing studio, both closed for shelter-in-place. Nearby is the West Adams house she and her husband bought six years ago, where she’s been home-schooling her 5-year-old daughter, Loretta.
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