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morning with a bloady nose.
'My boyfriend wanted to take me
to the hospital and I said, 'No! No!
No! It's just the Holocaust, my writ-
ing about the Holocaust.' If I'm lucky,
my personal experience informs the
writing. Stuff like that is very corn-
mon to all writers."
Aside from fiction, Singer writes
and teaches in Santa Fe about
women's fertility issues, concentrating
on natural birth control and repro-
duction. "People say, 'Gee, [fiction
and fertility] are kind of far apart.'
But for me, the whole regeneration
after the Holocaust and my obsession
with fertility in its general form [are]
really similar."
Singer's path to completing her
novel was a circuitous one. During
her first three years in New Mexico,
she worked as a house-sitter, moving
60 times. She says house-sitting kept
her needs simple and allowed her "to
give my novel panoramic attention."
But the nomadic lifestyle required
of a house-sitter eventually became
too much.
Upon a friend's suggestion, Singer
reluctantly began searching for a
sponsor, sending out photocopied
pages of her work in progress. She
soon heard from Bob Levin, an 80-
year-old from Albuquerque.
"He called me up one day and
said, 'I'm going to send you a check.'
I said, 'Why are you doing this?' He
said, 'I could give the money to chari-
ty, but this would be a lot more fun. I
want to learn about my Jewish
roots.
Both graduates of Ohio's Antioch
College, Singer and her patron
became friends. With Levin's funding,
she found a more permanent apart-
ment and kept on writing.
Now at work on her second novel,
Singer consciously echoes author Toni
Morrison. "I write the books that I
want to read," she says. Referring to
her own novel, she says, "I cried and
laughed through parts of these stories
I had [already] combed through 360
times."
Whether fiction, thinly veiled auto-
biography or a mix of both, The
Wholeness of a Broken Heart is a very
personal yet universal story of family
destruction and regeneration.
"There's fullness and awareness
that comes with having your heart
broken," Singer says, referring
ambiguously to either her novel or to
her own life.
"The book has given me a forum
for searching for wholeness in myself
and in the world that I call mine." ❑