Tayari Jones Blog
– Shot Up, Locked Up, or Somethin’ by Eisa Ulen
I met Eisa years ago and she said she was “working on a novel.” She had that look on her face that told me that she was not so much working on a novel, but that a novel was working on her. I knew she was a serious woman on a serious mission. I am happy to announce that her lovely and earth-scorching novel has just been published by Artia Books. I asked her to write a essay about the inspiration for this book which took her five years to craft.