Goodreads asked Chris Bohjalian:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

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!

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