It's hard enough to be a teenager, but imagine having to deal with coming of age while trying to hide a disfiguring birthmark on your right eye. That's the situation that Nina Goldman, the heroine of Renee Rosen's heartwarming debut novel " Every Crooked Pot", finds herself in - while she's also trying to deal with an eccentric father and being the youngest of three. Here's our interview with Ms. Rosen: 1) What was the inspiration for your book? Even though Every Crooked Pot is somewhat autobiographical, I never thought to write about growing up with a strawberry birthmark over my eye until I enrolled in a week-long writing workshop with Michael Cunningham. Michael gave us an exercise about childhood memories and I jotted something down about how my father once used my eye to get out of a speeding ticket. That incident is what inspired the opening scene of the novel. That was the starting point and from there, the characters took over and starting telling their own story. 2) Are you working on something right now? I am at work on a new novel though it's still too young in my mind to really share with anyone. Wish I could tell you, but right now it's changing on me day to day! 3) What is something about you that your fans don't know? I'm a horrible insomniac and can function pretty normally (though that's a relative term) on about four hours of sleep a night. If I get five or six, I consider it a great night's sleep.

 

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