Alotta Ways to Make a Life
Made as part of my MFA thesis, alotta ways to make a life is an illustrated book of interviews with four women in their sixties and seventies. In a culture whose scope stays tightly focused on youth, this book privileges the experiences, musings, and eccentricities of aging women.
In the making of the book, I brought questions to each 90-minute interview, but was happy to let the conversations meander. Each conversation was recorded, transcribed, and cut to one-fifth of its full duration. In editing, my priority was to choose moments that felt prescient while preserving the speaker’s voice and personality.
