Chris Bohjalian
This is a lovely question and it probably changes monthly -- perhaps even weekly. I don't want to give you the impression that I tend to love the lovers in whatever novel I'm reading. . .but often I do. (This may be the bookish equivalent of the Stephen Still song, "Love the one you're with.")
So right now I would say Lotto and Mathilde from Lauren Groff's remarkable, "Fates and Furies." I love their passion -- for each other and for life and for beauty and for sex. It's a novel I finished this past weekend.
But next week? It may very well be another couple.
I should note that I also love couples that often have nothing to do with romantic love: parents and children. Friends. Siblings.
So last month I loved the relationship between Alice and Frank in Julia Claibore Johnson's, "Be Frank with Me." Alice is a young literary assistant and Frank is one of the oddest little boys in literature. Alice has to care for the child and I savored their growing friendship.
Thanks for asking!
So right now I would say Lotto and Mathilde from Lauren Groff's remarkable, "Fates and Furies." I love their passion -- for each other and for life and for beauty and for sex. It's a novel I finished this past weekend.
But next week? It may very well be another couple.
I should note that I also love couples that often have nothing to do with romantic love: parents and children. Friends. Siblings.
So last month I loved the relationship between Alice and Frank in Julia Claibore Johnson's, "Be Frank with Me." Alice is a young literary assistant and Frank is one of the oddest little boys in literature. Alice has to care for the child and I savored their growing friendship.
Thanks for asking!
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Colleen
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Chris Bohjalian:
I read Midwives in one of my first book clubs ever when I worked for Minnesota Parent magazine back in the late 90s. When the meeting was attended by a couple of homebirth advocates, they clapped when I advised your book did not change my mind about being open to a homebirth. Glad to report my third was born wonderfully at home. What do you have in the works next? I've read a few of your books, but gladly have more.
Marc Chua
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Chris Bohjalian:
Thanks Chris for your response. I know I definitely loved your allusions to Greek mythology and popular culture that were present in The Flight Attendant. One quick question: Was your Big Bang Theory reference in The Flight Attendant(p, 317) a happy coincidence, given that, (in my opinion) the wonderfully talented Kaley Cuoco is slated to play Cassie Bowden?
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