9/11/2023 0 Comments Aftermath book![]() Subplots involving a private investigator, a teenage girl and a would-be terrorist all converge in a stunning conclusion. She becomes unrecognizable to those who knew her before and must re-invent herself entirely. The story centers on Charlotte Swenson, a once-successful fashion model whose face is shattered in a car accident. ![]() My book Community Board takes place entirely in 2019 and the term COVID isn’t mentioned once, but it examines the psychological, emotional and physical toll the pandemic took on us all.įor those familiar with Egan’s Pulitzer-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad, the multi-layered brilliance of this novel will come as no surprise. Darcy’s assumed happily-ever-after is rocked and she returns to her childhood home where she plunges into a period of unplanned isolation, fear and anxiety. My somewhat hapless heroine, Darcy Clipper, sits in her kitchen and listens as Skip, her husband of seven years, explains that he’s leaving her for a skydiver he met on a corporate team-building event. The book that resulted from that urge opens with one of those fundamental before/after moments that divide a life. I wanted optimism, community, joy and characters who, eventually, do the right thing. I also found that I wanted to write again in a way that felt entirely escapist. I watched a lot of zombie TV and post-catastrophe movies, thinking: well, it could always be worse.īut after awhile, I found that even fictional calamity hit too close to home to provide much entertainment. For the first months of the pandemic, I couldn’t write a word. ![]() ![]() Those months and years living in a heightened state of isolation, fear and confusion and then our re-emergence back into a changed world. In The Last Romantics, it’s a death in the family that sends my characters hurtling into the after.ĭuring the pandemic, I thought a lot about how COVID would be, for many of us, a before/after marker. In The House Girl, an act of violence marks the before/after for my protagonist, Josephine Bell. What is the single event that separates one period of time from the next? What causes a person, a community, an era to shift from one state to another? Each of my two previous novels played with this division. I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of a dramatic before/after. ![]()
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