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Before the publication of my second book,
Something Pretty, Something Beautiful, I had lunch with my friend Paul, who said, “Eric, I’m looking forward to this next book. But, man, I just hope it’s not as dark as the first one. I mean, you’re a lighthearted, funny guy. Why so much darkness?” I couldn’t bear, at the time, to tell Paul that
Something Pretty, Something Beautiful makes my first book,
Shimmer, seem like a Monty Python episode. Instead, I decided to let him discover that for himself.
Yet I think about that comment quite often now, as my third novel,
The City Where We Once Lived, is published. It’s a deeply dark novel. There’s one joke in the book...