LW: I submitted a very rough, early version of the bridge jumper chapter for Andreas Shroeder’s nonfiction class at UBC. VS: I think the question I’ve been thinking about the most is: what personal essay/story did you share first when you were in university? Did it make it into the book? Oh, and be sure to eat cake at some point while you read her memoir. And so, I hope you enjoy the Q & A! I hope you appreciate her wit and wisdom as much as I do! And, I hope you’re compelled to buy her book, read it, write a few words on Goodreads or Amazon or on your socials. It was cool to put a face and voice to the face and voice I’d created in my head.
I was happy to learn more about her, see her, hear her voice…as I’d been able to so intimately learn about her through her memoir. THANK YOU, LINDSAY!įull disclosure here: prior to tagging her, I totally googled her and watched her in several television interviews. We had some back and forth communication, and she agreed to let me send her some questions for an email interview. I tagged Lindsay in a social media post, and bless her heart, she responded. I hope you’re paying attention to the magic on your bookshelves… I’ve had her book on shelf for nearly two years…and like all magical books do, it called to me when this strange isolation began. It was not easy to read about Lindsay’s childhood or her teen years…her life story is powerful and heartbreaking, but her courage lights up each page, and I felt it carry me forward as I read. Memoirists hold mirrors up to themselves – reflections travel back in time, galavant in the present, and shake a fist to the future. All writers are brave, don’t get me wrong, but there’s a special path a memoirist travels down that is extraordinary. It’s one thing to experience a life unique, it’s a whole other thing to write about it. Memoirists are high up on my ‘amazing people’ list, if you must know. I’ve spent hours with Lindsay and her unbelievable, heart-felt, soul-full words – that is, reading her 316-page memoir entitled The Woo Woo How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018).
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