Kristen McMenamy

So that's what I do.

I just like, if in that, I kind of put myself in that moment again, what I'm going through and what my mind is saying to me when I'm going through these things.

And I put that in because it's like, oh, fuck, he did it again.

Fuck.

I'm an avid reader, so I just, I just love reading so much.

Like, reading is my, yeah, my escape and my, it's just, it's better than a Netflix series, you know?

It's like so good.

When you get a good book, it's, but, yeah.

What are your favorite books?

Well, the one that inspired me to write my book was D. Lynn Copperfield.

Oh, yeah, I've heard about that book.

What's her first name?

Kingfisher is her last name.

And I read it, and it's about a boy...

It's incredible that it was written by an older woman, but it's about a boy in the American foster system.

And she writes the way he is thinking, is talking, is, you know, what he's going through.

So I just loved it.

I loved her style.

You felt like you were living with her.

This person, you felt like you knew what he was.