San Francisco is home to me, so that’s a natural default. Going along with the confined setting, looking out into the snow and the stillness of that-I thought it would be a poetic setting. I’m from California I’ve only ever lived in California. What role did geography play in shaping Marin’s story? The book takes place both in San Francisco and at a college on the East Coast. The novel took on a darker tone, but still with the core of love and family. My grandfather had died a few months earlier and my wife suggested that I write a story about a girl and her grandfather.
Then I needed a story to put into the structure. The other novels came from the desire to explore characters and voices. This was different from other novels I’d written, because it came from the desire to explore a structure. In figuring out how to plot and pace the story, I decided I would flash between time periods. Like these small moments, I was interested in small objects and in the emotional attachments people can put on them. I’d been interested for some time in writing a novel that would take place over a short period of time, examining small moments and the meanings that they hold, and creating a confined setting for my character. What was the origin moment for the novel? It’s a love story in the broadest sense, in that it’s about the way that people impact one another, and how they try and fail and try again, and don’t allow people in, and then change their minds. We Are Okay has a Valentine’s Day pub date.
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