Describe your latest book.
Young Jane Young is about Aviva Grossman, who decides she wants to go into politics, and, like many young people who wish to enter that field, becomes an intern. She ends up sleeping with her boss, who is a married congressman. The book is about how this mistake affects every aspect of her life, and the lives of the women around her. It's about the ways it doesn't affect the congressman’s life, even though he is as much or more at fault than she is. The book takes place over about 16 years. Aviva is a college junior when we meet her and a grown woman with a daughter of her own by the end of the story.
For me, the reason I tell a story is as important as the story itself. I wanted to write about women and politics. Specifically, why women don’t go into politics...