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Describe your latest book.
Oh boy. How is it possible that after 14 years of working on this book, I still don’t know how to describe it? I think it’s ultimately the story of one woman’s midlife crisis, but said crisis is unfurling in 2004 Iowa in the midst of the presidential election, and also — partly, hypothetically, metaphorically — in Nazi-occupied France, which is what a lot of us feared the US was going to feel like if George W. Bush won a second term in office. Such fears seem almost quaint now in this current nightmare state of the country... I guess I also think it’s about the stories we tell ourselves and each other in order to keep living our lives in this world...