https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/debut-novelist-kelsey-mckinney-losing-religion-leaving-texas/

Journalism also values making sure your reader understands what you’re talking about and making sure that they can position themselves in the narrative. ... KM: I love Texas so much. I’m homesick as hell. And I think in some ways, when I first started working on the first themes of this book, what I had mainly were descriptions of skies, because it was winter in Washington, D.C., and the sky is awful here. And I was like, I miss it so much. I think part of what’s hard about having lost my faith in general is that I also lost the entire culture around it. So in some ways I’m extremely nostalgic for something that I no longer can participate in. And it’s similar with Texas, right? It’s like I’m nostalgic for this place that I chose to leave. It’s my own fault!