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Ingrid Rojas-Contreras' debut novel, "Fruit of the Drunken Tree," was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards. It was a fictionalized account of her kidnapping experience.
And her debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was the silver medal winner in first fiction from the California Book Awards.
— Episode: 323: What if you were suddenly a blank s...
Episode: 323: What if you were suddenly a blank slate?
Ingrid Rojas-Contreras' debut novel, "Fruit of the Drunken Tree," was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards. It was a fictionalized account of her kidnapping experience.
And her debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was the silver medal winner in first fiction from the California Book Awards.
I think because my hand was slapped when I tried to write about my grandfather I was like okay fine I will write about this other wild thing that happened and even though that's a true story I'm gonna tell it as a fake story. So I fictionalized it.