I kind of get it, actually.
Of course there’ll be another earthquake.
In many ways the history of humanity is a history of pandemics.
Credit: Sarah Shatz; Knopf
We’re all descendants of the survivors of one pandemic or another, she adds.
Her starting point for this book was the employees who perpetuate the novels investment fraud.
Two ofElevens characters, shipping executive Miranda Caroll and her onetime boss Leon Prevant, factor into theHotelstoryline.
Sometimes I find myself a little bit attached to fictional characters, says Mandel.
I always knew I was going to bring her back.
What would it be like?
Could I write something that I liked as much asStation Eleven?
It was completely internal, but it was real.
“It’s ever-refining,” she says.
“I definitely have more confidence as a writer with book No.
5 than I did with, say, book No.
There are things that I did in this book that I probably wouldn’t have attempted in earlier ones.
I always felt any direction I want to go in will be okay.”
