It was excruciating to watch, the author admits.
Novey conceivedThose Who Knewbefore the dawn of the Trump Era or the #MeToo movement.
Now it reads too presciently to believe.
Credit: Sylvie Rosokoff; Viking
We spoke to the author about how the book reads now, what she hopes readers take away.
Read on below.Those Who Knewpublishesthis Tuesdayand isavailable for pre-order.
Who gets to leverage that shame?
How it impacted her marriage and her life.
My character Lena looks away from the sight of [senator] Victor in the paper.
Some of those aspects that mirrored each other, I felt in a really visceral way.
It took you four years to write.
[The book is set in a fictional island country.]
You experiment with form here.
We want to think that its true.
Its not always true.
People get away with things all the time!
In this country, we have that sense of suspense now.
How long will this administration get away with what theyve done?
How long will they get away with it?
The book is largely told from the perspectives of people not in power.
Its about how the patriarch doesnt know things, and theres a we who do know.
Thats in some ways why it was sort of consoling.
The book said: These stories are not unique to our country.
