Author Asale Angel-Ajani says the desert heat and San Bernardino mountains provided inspiration her debut novel.
Despite being on the other side of the world in Hong Kong, overlooking a marina shrouded in a cool fog, Asale Angel-Ajani says her nostalgia for the place she once called home was at the forefront of her mind while writing her debut novel.
“There is a part of California, even for those of us in the last 15-20 years, that we don’t recognize anymore,” Angel-Ajani said. “These are landscapes and experiences that are disappearing and being radically altered by climate change and development, so there is something that we both gain and lose from that.”
“That declaration is a way she creates space in a lot of the same ways that especially first-generation immigrant kids have to make a claim of who they are even in the face of their parent’s positioning in the U.S.,” said Angel-Ajani. The novel also doesn’t shy away from addressing day-to-day poverty and the anxieties of living in a system that can reinforce the cycle of hardship. Angel-Ajani has written two nonfiction books that touch on some of the topics in the novel, “Strange Trade: The Story of Two Women Who Risked Everything in the International Drug Trade” and the upcoming “Intimate: Essays on Racial Terror.”
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