Author Alyssa Quinn spent over a year researching and figuring out how to write her debut novel, which examines the theories of language, before the first line came to her one night.
Alyssa Quinn holds her debut novel, "Habilis," at The King's English Bookshop, on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. The book will be releases Sept. 13, 2022; Quinn will lead an in-person discussion and a book signing at King's English on Sept. 16, 2022.
In particular, it was the first moment that language arrived in the human species that prompted her imagination. From there, she started researching human evolution and anthropology findings, reading about the fossil discoveries of the renowned archaeologists Louis and Mary Leakey, and the theory of language from the anthropologist Eric Gans.Then she had her brainstorm, and from there, Quinn said, the rest of the book poured out fairly quickly.
Readers may be unnerved by Lucy’s journey, feeling the visceral experience of being lost along with her. That’s intentional, Quinn said. “I’m interested in disorientation in all my writing, disorienting the reader and the characters.” “The quest to find human origins has been one that has been complicit in a lot of violence, because it sometimes assumes that to be human is a universal experience as opposed to one that is deeply diverse, depending on who you are and where you’ve been born,” Quinn said.
It felt fitting, she said, that the species that was named for its hands — who might’ve been the first human to use gestural communication — would be the focus of the book. She added, “I’m interested in how language evolves continually, how it’s used differently in all sorts of situations. How it can be playful and edgy. Language is dynamic and can never be one thing.”
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