Sarah Addison Allen
Sarah Addison Allen
Sarah Addison Allenis an American author. She grew up in Asheville, North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where she graduated with a degree in literature. In early 2011 Allen was diagnosed with breast cancer and completed a round of chemotherapy by October of the same year...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
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I'm a huge fan of Alice Hoffman, Fred Chappell and Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
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Doctors say there's no such thing as chemo brain, but ask any chemo patient.
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I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.
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I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don't and live in a world I can only enter through words.
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I'm a classic stress-eater, so I know a lot about how eating can become a way of hiding from what's really wrong. I escape into food. But some people escape into books. Some into relationships that might not be good for them. The three main characters in 'The Sugar Queen' struggle with each of these comforts-turned-crutches.