The Big Idea: Mia V. Moss

A lot can happen when you take a one-thousand year nap, and there may or may not be consequences when you wake up. Author Mia V. Moss takes an interesting look at false narratives and wrongfully upheld beliefs in the Big Idea for her newest novel, The Heresy of Thieves. MIA V. MOSS: Humans are story-powered creatures. We tell stories about the stars, the seasons, ourselves, and each other. And if we are very rich or persuasive in other ways, the stories we tell about others are the stories that get labeled ‘reality,’ whether the subject of the story agrees with that label or not. Sometimes the labels our fellow humans foist upon us are benign. Sometimes you say “oh that’s a cute chicken figurine” to a relative as you window shop at the mall. And then forever after at Christmas you are The One Who Loves Chickens and are gifted yet another chicken figurine from a beaming well-intentioned relative, who is very proud of their talent for gift-giving. Then there is the 1995 romcom, While…