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It’s actually a book I’ve been writing for many, many years.
There was a kind of leftover love, you know, this constant yearning to do something with
that love.
It’s about travel, it’s about exploring different worlds.
It’s a book about longing and loss.
I think all of us have times in our lives that are extremely precious and fleeting.
You don’t really understand how powerful and important they are when you’re in them.
But, you know, 10, 15, 20 years later, as you get older you realize, my god, I completely
changed in that moment.
Where I was given this precious, precious gift in that moment.
As so for me the book is about creating a portrait of that.
But I think I was really inspired by the feeling that I had of needing to give back to this
man who gave so much to me. I was inspired by that. I was driven by that.
You know it’s a very emotional book. It’s a very sensual book. It’s a very…it’s
a book that should take you on a journey, that should take you somewhere far, far away.
And it is sad, but I think there is such beauty in the sadness.
You know, so much of the book is about how…you know…love can’t really conquer all. We
like to think that it can.
But at the same time that love can’t conquer all, I think that love can’t be defeated
either.
Like there is something about love that even it can’t manifest the way that you want
it to or the way that you think it should, it still remains.
You know…like I will love him forever, whether I ever see him again or not. And that experience
is imprinted on my psyche, my being.
To see people become so taken by the story and moved. Even if they want the two of them
to get together in the end or no matter what they feel about it, they’re moved.
People are… Something’s happening when they read the book. And that’s all I want—something
to happen, for somebody to feel something.
Feel… you know…wake-up and feel! Adé: A Love Story by Rebecca Walker.