I had an assignment to write a short story for a class in college. Nancy: I never meant to write a novel at that time. Ora: What drove you to think Sarah’s story would make a good novel? My mother tells me that later I cried when lifted from Sarah’s lap, because she had won me over and I’d fallen asleep listening to her talk. I remember an elderly lady in a rocking chair with gnarled and bony hands, and being afraid of getting close to her. I only met her one time I’m told, when I was 2 years old. Nancy: Sarah Agnes Prine is the name of my maternal great-grandmother.
Tell us a little about yourself and the exact relationship of your main character, Sarah Prine, to yourself. When reading your books, I was immediately swept into the story of Sarah and was appalled and fascinated as you described those early days of her life.
Ora: Nancy, it’s so kind of you to do this interview! Sarah was amazingly courageous in the novels and undeniably in true life. The book is based off family memoirs and it details Sarah Prine’s struggles with life and love, and pioneer tragedies of death and loss. The full title of her first novel (a Willa Cather Literary Award finalist) is These is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine 1881-1901. Turner wrote about her ancestors in these four books based on the Prine family of the Southern Arizona Territory 1880s-early1900s.
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