Kristen Amen
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Chris Bohjalian:
Just wanted you to know we read Light in The Ruins for our library's Ladies' Night Out Book Club and had a most fascinating discussion. I've been a big fan of yours for years and am continually happy to recommend your books to our library patrons. What book are you currently working on?
Chris Bohjalian
Why thank you, Kristen - and please thank your book group for me. I am always so honored when a book group selects one of my novels.
I followed "The Light in the Ruins" with "Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands" in 2014. The paperback arrives next Tuesday, May 26. I still miss Emily Shepard -- the narrator -- a lot, and worry about her daily. You can read about this novel right here on Goodreads.
My next novel is "The Guest Room," which is finished. It arrives on January 5, 2016. Below is how the flap copy describes it. Fingers crossed my work never disappoints you. Thanks again!
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room; two women are on the run from police; and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams.
When Richard Chapman offers to host his younger brother's bachelor party, he expects a certain amount of debauchery. He sends his wife, Kristin, and young daughter off to his mother-in-law's for the weekend, and he opens his Westchester home to his brother's friends and their hired entertainment. What he does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, a dangerously intimate moment in his guest bedroom, and two naked women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards before driving off into the night. In the aftermath, Richard's life rapidly spirals into a nightmare. The police throw him out of his home, now a crime scene; his investment banking firm puts him on indefinite leave; and his wife finds herself unable to forgive him for the moment he shared with a dark-haired girl in the guest room. But the dark-haired girl, Alexandra, faces a much graver danger. In one breathless, violent night, she is free, running to escape the police who will arrest her and the gangsters who will kill her in a heartbeat. A captivating, chilling story about shame and scandal, The Guest Room is a riveting novel from one of our greatest storytellers.
I followed "The Light in the Ruins" with "Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands" in 2014. The paperback arrives next Tuesday, May 26. I still miss Emily Shepard -- the narrator -- a lot, and worry about her daily. You can read about this novel right here on Goodreads.
My next novel is "The Guest Room," which is finished. It arrives on January 5, 2016. Below is how the flap copy describes it. Fingers crossed my work never disappoints you. Thanks again!
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room; two women are on the run from police; and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams.
When Richard Chapman offers to host his younger brother's bachelor party, he expects a certain amount of debauchery. He sends his wife, Kristin, and young daughter off to his mother-in-law's for the weekend, and he opens his Westchester home to his brother's friends and their hired entertainment. What he does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, a dangerously intimate moment in his guest bedroom, and two naked women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards before driving off into the night. In the aftermath, Richard's life rapidly spirals into a nightmare. The police throw him out of his home, now a crime scene; his investment banking firm puts him on indefinite leave; and his wife finds herself unable to forgive him for the moment he shared with a dark-haired girl in the guest room. But the dark-haired girl, Alexandra, faces a much graver danger. In one breathless, violent night, she is free, running to escape the police who will arrest her and the gangsters who will kill her in a heartbeat. A captivating, chilling story about shame and scandal, The Guest Room is a riveting novel from one of our greatest storytellers.
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Ann
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Chris Bohjalian:
I was intrigued by the extensive background on sleep disorders in "The Sleepwalker". As I was reading, I got the impression that you became interested in it because parasomnias are one of the mechanisms by which people end up behaving against their volition - and so you end up with tremendous potential for conflict, as you showed in the Ahlberg's marriage. What made you become interested in that? Thank you.
Pam
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Chris Bohjalian:
Mr. Bohjalian! I was so excited to see the subject matter of your newest novel as I am a great-granddaughter of Margaret Scott, who was hanged for a witch in Salem, Mass., in 1692. How did you come to choose this subject matter? I will be anxious to see how you portrayed your protagonist and I look forward to immersing myself in another of your wonderful works!
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