Cressida Leyshon talks to Annie Proulx about the writer’s new novel, “Barkskins,” which combines environmental themes with American history.
I think I must have been inching toward a novel about the forest most of my life. As a child I was enamored of the woods and lucky enough to spend much time among trees as my mother was a self-taught naturalist. Her favorite book was Gene Stratton-Porter’s “A Girl of the Limberlost,” which I re-read a few years ago.
Of course there must be readers who are offended by the way Posey’s story is presented, but that never occurred to me. She could have been shown as darkly tragic, but that was not a direction I wanted to take her. Many people have had rotten childhoods and have survived and developed as strong personalities.
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