{"id":199,"date":"2012-10-01T13:10:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T13:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/?p=199"},"modified":"2012-10-11T18:18:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T18:18:30","slug":"lucy-ferris-delves-into-life-in-peshawar-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/2012\/10\/01\/lucy-ferris-delves-into-life-in-peshawar-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Ferriss delves into life in Peshawar, Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/files\/2012\/10\/ferriss1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-215\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/files\/2012\/10\/ferriss1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a>Fresh off the success of her most recent novel, <em>The Lost Daughte<\/em>r, Trinity\u2019s Writer-in-Residence, Lucy Ferriss, earlier this year spent a month in Peshawar, Pakistan, conducting research for her next book, tentatively titled <em>Honor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Her experience in the Pakistani city of 2 million was the subject of a Common Hour Talk on Thursday, September 27, one in which she said some of her assumptions about that country\u2019s culture \u2013 its rituals, taboos, and customs \u2013 were affirmed and some of which were debunked, but all of which will shape the writing of her book.<\/p>\n<p>Her talk gave her audience insights into how a successful novelist goes about researching and writing a book, testing theories and hypotheses to see which ones have merit and which should be jettisoned. And her lecture also provided an insider\u2019s look at a society that is largely enigmatic to most Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Squash is what led Ferriss to Pakistan. \u201cTrinity\u2019s had that effect on me. I wanted, first, to write a story about a female jock, a coach, who possesses the particular confidence of coaches,\u201d said Ferriss. \u201cI wanted to challenge her in an unexpected way and see what would happen. Because I teach at Trinity, squash became my coach\u2019s sport. And because squash can draw, as we all know, a veritable U.N. of players to a small college, the challenge lay somewhere in a clash of cultures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more about Ferriss&#8217;s Common Hour talk and new book \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/NewsEvents\/NewsArticles\/pages\/Ferriss-in-Peshawar-Pakistan.aspx\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off the success of her most recent novel, The Lost Daughter, Trinity\u2019s Writer-in-Residence, Lucy Ferriss, earlier this year spent a month in Peshawar, Pakistan, conducting research for her next book, tentatively titled Honor. Her experience in the Pakistani city of 2 million was the subject of a Common Hour Talk on Thursday, September 27, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[36,35,34,37,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}