Jeff Glor hears from Kevin Wilson about “Family Fang,” his inventive novel about a quirky couple obsessed with performance art. For them, everything in life is secondary to art, including their children.

Jeff Glor: What inspired you to write the book?

Kevin Wilson: I knew I wanted to write about family, what it means to be born into something and how you eventually leave it behind to become your own person. But the biggest event that spurred me to write the book was the birth of my son, Griff. Once my wife and I became parents, I thought more and more about what the responsibility of caring for a baby meant and if our actions were helping or hurting our son.

JG: What surprised you the most during the writing process?

KW: How much I grew to care about the characters. I felt such an affinity for Annie and Buster, 홍성출장안마 the children in the novel, that when I finished the book, I missed writing about them. I imagine it was the same feeling a parent has when a child leaves for college. They left me behind, but I still had more ideas for them.

JG: What would you be doing if you weren’t a writer?

KW: Most of my life, I’ve been a secretary, so I imagine I’d keep doing that.

I am very good at taking orders and then finding ways to ignore them.

JG: What else are you reading right now?

KW: “Baby & Other Stories” by Paula Bomer. It is a beautiful and intense collection of stories that I have to read slowly or else I feel that I might explode.

JG: What’s next for you?

KW: Hopefully another novel, but mostly jumping around the house with Griff and my wife.