Warning: This article contains major spoilers aboutFind Me.
Im always saying, why are you crying?
Well, because its the loss of love.
Credit: Christopher Ferguson; Farrar, Straus and Giroux
But it doesnt mean that Olivers leaving.
The way its written lets you think that this is exactly whats going to happen.
But I always end my books in a kind of conditional mood.
So you dont know if something is going to happen or its just sort of flitting through his mind.
I was kind of thinking of that when I wroteFind Me.
I was going to assume that Oliver is coming back.
And I dont write with any kind of message or mission statement, thats not me at all.
[In this book] The son is intimate with his father, the son is intimate with Michel.
Its kind of obvious that relationship may not last very long, but theyre intimate.
The same thing with the father and Miranda everybody is extremely, extremely open.
And what they want, I dont want to give them.
So theres a sense of ill-balanced relationships throughout her life.
It seldom works that way in families, but this is the kind of family I come from.
Everybodys welcome, everybody should stay together, we like each other.
We can live together and we can take care of each other.
I come from a very big family, and I like the fact that people basically like each other.
Nobody hates each other.
Place has always been very important to the story in your novels.
The other place I know very well is Paris.
And I like Paris in the winter, I dont know why.
And then theres New York.
I love New York and placed it as a third chapter.
I want to go back to it, so Ill go back to it on paper.
It was Alexandria, where I was born.
And is also to me, the idea that fiction can give life.
