D Dina Friedman Follow

I grew up in New York City, a place I hold close to my heart and love to write about. When I was 23 I moved with my husband to western Massachusetts because it was "a compromise between Brooklyn and the Ozarks." We currently live in a 350 year old house next door to a dairy farm. I love to walk in the woods near my house, and a big impetus in writing ESCAPING INTO THE NIGHT was imagining how the woods could be home. And like Gus and Liza in PLAYING DAD'S SONG, a typical family scene at our house might be discussing which spices to use with the sounds of oboe, violin or piano in the background.