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Speaking to TODAY.com, George says the book’s voice began with her own personal diary. “The voice is very much my own,” George tells TODAY.com. “It’s the colloquial conversational tone that I have in my head.”
When she originally tried writing about her mom and brother, her agent came back with feedback. “She said they were boring characters because they're not doing anything for the plotline. They're supportive. They're there for Maddie. That was a major redraft where I was like, ‘OK, I'm going to make them caricatures of the people I know,’” she says.
“Maame means to be a woman or to be a mother in Twi, which is a Ghanaian dialect. I'm basically looking at the responsibilities that come with being given such a nickname and such a personality, before you even know what to do with it, before you're even old enough to say, this isn't the name I should have. This isn't the responsibility I should have.
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