Fire off five words to describe your book:
Educational,
Informative, satisfying, thrilling and simply brilliant.
What are you currently reading?
My
current readings are, ‘Making Peace & Nurturing Life’ by Julia Aker Duany
and ‘tuesdays with Morrie’ by Mitch Albom
Give us an out of context quote from your book to warm our hearts:
“If I were you, I wouldn’t cry. You know the unproved
illogical ninety-nine percent belief that claims the only contribution women
ever make is providing sacs for already made and fully developed people,” said
the old lady. The young lady lifted her head and said, “The fact that I don’t
see them doesn’t mean they aren’t being enslaved.” She turned her head back to
the stepmother, who was now even further away. She held her breath and said, “What
a godly privilege to be born a man.”
Tell us your best three sentence campfire story:
My
three-sentence campfire story is a story of pied crow and black crow.
In
the story, pied and black crows are stepsiblings. However, their father loves
pied crow mother more than the black crow’s mother. This gets the black crow
thinking. She comes home one afternoon and turns her stepsibling to a murderer.
She comes and sadly announces to her stepsibling that she just killed her
mother and that pied should kill her mother too so the war between the two
mothers can be denounced once and for all. Pied kills her mother. Black reveals
her mother is still alive.
Name one song or artist that gets you fired up:
A
song that fires me up every time it comes on is ‘Through All of It’ by Colton
Dixon
Fire down below! What’s the first object you save?
The
first object I ever saved was the lyrics of my first song, ‘Suffering’
Anything you have the burning desire to say?
I
have a burning desire to say a lot of things; however, for now, it will have to
be about believing in what you are doing. The only time anyone else will have a
chance of reading, listening, and potentially learning from your work is when
you have become your first believer in your own work. This advice may have been
given in ways but knowing that you don’t have to stop when some persons could
not believe in you is perhaps one of the working keys and that worth repeating.
So, believe you.
Advice for newly sparking writers in three sentences or less:
As
new writers, there are so many uncertainties as far as the growth of your work.
However, I’m going to stop here, just a few meters away from you so I can
whisper into your ear and imagine you really are here, here is what I would
whisper: the growth of your work depends on the trust and the belief you have
in yourself. And now that you have made
us all believed you can write, keep writing.
Which of your characters would you want to share a campfire with, and
why?
I
would like to share a campfire with the old lady. I would like her to take me
back in her journey. I would like to hear from her how it must have felt to
have lived in a society where men have choices even as far as choosing which
child they want to take and which one they can leave behind based on the health
and the ability of the children.
Can you briefly describe your writing process for us?
My
writing process is a bit funny. Surprisingly, it does not follow specific rules.
I used to plan out when I should sit down and write. After a while, I realized every time I set a
time to write, I end up writing nothing. So, I just write whenever there are
enough thoughts in my mind. And quite honestly, I write a lot whenever I have
not pretimed myself or felt that I needed to write today.
What is next on your writerly horizon?
More
writing in my horizon. There is nothing I love like writing right now. So, more
writing and hopefully more publishing!
GENRE: FICTION / African American
/ General
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BLURB:
This
book is inspired by true events.
Chosen from among the
mob of her boyfriend's girlfriends, married in the most secure, respectful, and
honourable way known to the people, Nyayang Jock, a girl born without a
brother, won the race, defeating her top co-girlfriend, Sarah, by being the
youngest over Sarah born with brothers. At the least, unlike ninety-nine percent
of the girls of her generation and how they were married, it is safe for
Nyayang to say she was married for love to Chuol Malual, a businessman who was
born into a big, rich family.
Nonetheless, unlike the
expectation of her in-laws, the unattended attitude of the nature secretly
stabbed Nyayang in the back, leaving her to fail and creating the family Chuol
and his family fundamentally paid the forty cows for. After waiting for what
seemed like a decade for her to get pregnant, she gave birth to a girl, a thing
that only fueled the resultant ager. Taking a long time to get pregnant and
only giving birth to a girl when she should have birthed a boy called for a
quick search for another wife. For Chuol's parents, this was a search for a
working womb, but for Chuol it was just a search for wife number two, which he
found hard now that he realized most girls showed many of the characteristics
Nyayang had shown; however, eventually all displayed some problem.
But that all changed
when he accidentally stumbled upon Sarah again, who instantly restored his
manhood. Sarah not only filled Chuol's life with the boys he had been looking
for, but she had her chance one more time to not only show Nyayang that it is
the woman born with brothers who wins, but that the woman who has the ability
to birth boys is the ultimate winner. But values-setting, worth-determining,
and love are all weaknesses in society. There is only one true winner, and that
is the neighbor, the seasonal enemy, the chaff buyer, the Murlen man.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Excerpt One:
NBTM: What a Godly Privilege to Be Born a Man by Tabitha
Biel Luak
WhataGodlyPrivilegetoBeBornaMan
FICTION / African American / General
There is a famous saying among the Nuer people which goes a
little like this: “Every family has its way of talking and eating.” I don’t
know what thoughts may pop into your mind upon hearing this saying. Personally?
I see it as a universal family description—or perhaps the nature of these two
things, “talking and eating,” are indeed that which differentiate us, the human
race, universally
.
Of course, there are other differences amongst people. And
although one of the obvious differences is the colour of skin, there are also
things formed with conscious intentions for the purpose of them becoming our
ways of life. In most cases, although this can’t really be said about skin
colour, there are persuasive goals set prior to forming a way to live. For
instance, we teach children how to do well behaviourally so tomorrow is a bit
clearer for them. However, within a formation, a tendency is developed.
Sometimes, these tendencies come in the form of beliefs, which influence what
and how we teach them.
Take this belief from the place I call home. Where I come
from, in South Sudan, it is overwhelmingly believed that there is a difference
between a male child and a female child. Of course, there is a difference. And
so this difference is often exhausted and exploited to identify potential
inequalities between the two. Unfortunately, the further this persists, the
more limits we place on what we consider males and females to be capable of.
Nevertheless, humans are known to loathe dwelling in a
valley of non-competitive spirit. Therefore, the only way forward is still to
lean iii strongly toward one side and confidently unwrap the other side as if
someone was there when she was all assembled.
It has always been the belief here at home, exhaustedly
theorized and relentlessly practised, that one thing must be different from
another. Often, to roll out one thing is enough but the other is not. In a
remote way, this perception unconsciously brings us to inherently believe one
is the product while the other is the producer. In other families, this way of reasoning
may look a bit different; nonetheless, the derivation of the tendentious
tendency in this family walks its way persistently from a claimed, precise
understanding of fullness that can only be explained in four ways.
These involve precise understanding of the structural beauty
of appearance, the strength of the structural body, the enormity of the group
to which one belongs, and the sophistication or smoothness of the tongue. As a
result, every response, every act and every performance revolves around these
four things. Therefore, how each family teaches the two is different, for each
family believes the two exist for different, unbalanced reasons. And that,
unlike other families, this family eats and talks differently.
The stories you are about to read, with the exception of
names and certain places, are real people’s stories, which, to this day, are
still happening. As you flip through the pages, I urge you to ask yourself the
following questions: What, then, is human? Who is human? And what does it mean
to be one?
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during the tour.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Tabitha Biel
Luak is a South Sudanese-Canadian author. Tabitha was born in South Sudan,
Africa. She relocated to Edmonton, Canada in 2011. Tabitha is a mother of two
beautiful girls. She is currently taking her bachelor degree in Psychology. She
is very passionate about helping her community grow. She is involved with youth
in helping them reconnect to their roots by learning about where they come
from. Tabitha is a gospel singer who also writes and sings songs about social issues.
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2 comments:
Sounds like a good book.
Thank you for sharing the interview.
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