Abstract:
My forthcoming novel The Forrests (Bloomsbury, 2012) was excerpted in the above publications. In this novel I experiment with structure and point of view, presenting the story of one woman's family life through intensely detailed selected memories. Narrative threads are present through all the episodes, but each must be able to stand alone as short fiction pieces, as these excerpts did, even as this writing consciously resists a 'sense of an ending'.