![]() It will include similar themes to her previous novels, highlighting an interest in family and immigration. Very often I have to change as a writer and as a person to meet those needs.”Įngel has already started thinking about her next novel focusing on a much broader and bigger family saga, though it is still considered to be in the very early stages. “As I’m beginning a project, I really have to listen to it and feel what its needs are. “Each book is its own animal,” Engel said. ![]() She also has work appearing in the New York Times, The Atlantic, A Public Space, Boston Review and Harvard Review, among other publications. Prior to “The Veins of the Ocean,” Engel published two other novels with Grove Press, including “ Vida” in 2010 and “ It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris” in 2013. Published by Grove Press in May of 2016, “The Veins of the Ocean” details a “riveting story of a young woman’s journey away from her family’s painful past towards redemption and a freer future.” “Once you lay down the groundwork for a story, the story starts to speak to you, and you have to give it that freedom to go where it wants to go.” “Sometimes I have a sense of where the story is going, but it changes,” she said. ![]() The visit, scheduled after the recent publication of her novel and New York Times Editors’ Choice, “ The Veins of the Ocean,” gave students the opportunity to question Engel about her writing process. 18 and 19 as a part of the English and creative writing department’s Distinguished Writers Series. ![]() Author Patricia Engel visited Widener’s Main Campus Oct. ![]()
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