Marcella asked Chris Pavone:

How do you balance your own political leanings within a story in order to not offend half of your fans/audiences (since the US political voting group is closely split 50/50 liberal/conservative)?

Chris Pavone My goal is to write big books, with big plots, and big themes, and big characters who are full of everything that real people are full of--loves and hates and ambitions and fears. These characters feel strongly about many things; strong feelings are what makes characters big. They feel strongly about power dynamics in marriages and workplaces, about tensions among social and economic strata, about race, about all the things that we group together under the umbrella "political," and my novels feature characters whose politics are both liberal and conservative. I sincerely hope that ALL readers are able to hear the voices of fictional characters with whom they disagree, just as I hope that all citizens can hear the voices of real people with whom they disagree. Because I believe that the contrary is the fundamental cause of all the problems in the world: our unwillingness to listen to voices that are not our own.

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