Interview with Andromeda Romano-Lax
Author of Annie and the Wolves
What are 5 things you would want to find?
A beautiful set of Chinese calligraphy originals my husband and I bought from an artist in Taiwan, when we lived there briefly, and then left in a relative’s garage while we were between homes. They disappeared. I still can’t stop thinking about them.
A black carbon fiber cello to replace the one I sold over ten years ago. On a fifty-percent off sale, of course.
A new marine invertebrate. This might require me to learn how to scuba dive and how to identify many more sea organisms, but what a fantasy!
The perfect meditation that would allow me to start every day feeling completely calm and collected.
My next reader.
What are 5 things you would want to hide?
My gums. They’re in terrible shape. Worse after our COVID year.
How much time I’ve spent on social media in the last few months, especially during the most anxious news months, when my smartphone use went through the roof.
Moldy items hiding under beds and in corners. We live on an island in the Pacific Northwest. I love everything about it except the moisture!
Proof of how many limes I consume every week. Many of them are used for gin and tonics or mojitos. Middle age decadence.
Any receipts showing my overspending and overconsumption. I’d rather forget!
If you could choose anywhere in the world for your book to be hidden, where would it be?
For this particular book, a copy hidden anywhere in Ohio is great, but it would be especially fun to have one hidden in Darke County, where Annie Oakley grew up.
If you could find any book, which would it be and why?
I’d love to find a book inscribed to any of my earliest favorite authors—Virginia Woolf, Philip Roth, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro—from another encouraging writer, mentor or friend. That would be a keeper.
Who would you want to find your book (another author, celebrity, et cetera)?
I’d love for a current favorite author of mine—whether Louise Erdrich, Margaret Atwood, Ann Patchett or another from a long list—to find a copy and start reading…and then have that moment captured in a photograph so I could see it, as proof.
