![]() ![]() She doesn't usually include current events, but seeing so much in the news about attacks on Asian Americans, she said, "It worked its way into the book and became a seed around which the novel arranged itself." For her as a novelist, such a moment always seems to be in the offing.Ĭeleste Ng ( Little Fires Everywhere, Penguin Books, $17) was also working around a kind of "rupture" in 2016, when she started Our Missing Hearts (Penguin, October 4). At first, Egan thought the 2016 election would be the Rupture, then Covid came along. Jennifer Egan began The Candy House (coming from Scribner, April 5) in 2012 and had posited in it an event called "The Rupture." Her book A Visit from the Goon Squad (Anchor, $17) had its own "rupture": 9/11. ![]() At a recent American Booksellers Association virtual panel called "Storytelling in the Cultural Moment," a theme that echoed was "staying curious." Moderator Emma Straub ( All Adults Here) observed that "novels are a product of their time," and asked the authors about their influences. ![]()
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