This is exactly the case with Elizabeth Ames’The Other’s Gold(out now).
At the risk of revealing our highly-sophisticated selection process, we knew we must pick up this novel.
“How often in your life are you inside a moment that is a dream come true?”
she muses from her home in Cambridge, Mass.
“When you start to have people feel connected to the characters, it’s very rewarding.
Ames also found herself drawn to the elusiveness of elite institutions.
“I was really interested in the porousness of that time,” she explains.
“You start to see these people and believe in them as if they’re in your life.”
“Do I know what my biggest mistake is?
And who gets to say?
“I’m a worrier,” she admits.
“But I’m also trying to lean into the joy.”
