Randy Susan Meyers spent eight years as assistant director of Common Purpose, a batterer intervention program where she worked with both batterers and domestic violence victims. Previously, she was director for the Mission Hill Community Centers where she worked with at-risk youth. She is the co-author of the nonfiction book Couples with Children. Her short fiction has been published in Perigee, Fog City Review, and Grub Street Free Press. She currently teaches fiction-writing seminars at the Grub Street Writers’ Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Bethanne Patrick talks with Randy Susan Meyers about her new book, The Murderer's Daughters.
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Submitted by Bethanne on Fri, 05/21/2010 - 10:46am A Conversation with Randy Susan Meyers
"The Murderer's Daughters" is a novel inspired by real events and emotions in author Randy Susan Meyers' life, although her own father never did kill anyone.
I found this particularly significant and powerful because Meyers did not publish this novel until later in her life -- yet she was still able to access those events and emotions and translate them into a full-blown examination of what might happen "after" a person's rage changes the lives of everyone in its wake.
This isn't a story about a murder. It's a story about how two little girls grow into two complicated women and ultimately come to terms with the tragedy that defined their childhood. I highly recommend it, and hope you'll enjoy watching my interview with Randy Susan Meyers.
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