And, oh my God, I don’t even know what they are. And then I thought: I want to go to a place that I really want to be, and if I really want to be there, then the reader’s going to really want to be there. “The fun I had as a kid, even as a teenager, making stuff up. She calls it her “youngest book.”įall 2022 books preview: 64 books to keep you warm as the weather coolsĪpproaching the project, she wanted to go back to the “fun stuff,” she says.
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While MacDonald was grieving her own parents, she found solace in bringing to life this youthful protagonist full of hope and aspirations for her own future. “A windswept moor that looked to me like an ocean whose turbulent surface had been stilled by the wave of a wand.” The idea began with an image, “a mysterious brooding landscape,” MacDonald explains in the Advance Reader Copy. It is engrossing, gorgeous, funny – and excruciating at times.
It illuminates the experience of being queer before such things were discussed openly. It is written from various perspectives – sometimes first-person, sometimes third. The story takes many unexpected twists, the reader often catching on before the characters do. Her mother died in the midst of all of this in September, 2020. “I realized I could do everything that I needed to do, slowly. She had a big chair to sit on, a little lap desk, a post to lean on, a kneeling chair, a saddle chair. Large swaths of Fayne were written with MacDonald propped up just so, in a comfortable chair, with shoulder supports, bands around her forearms, supports for her hands, neck, back and knees. But it was ultimately determined, more than a year later, that she was suffering from seronegative rheumatoid arthritis. She was initially diagnosed, in February, 2019, with polymyalgia rheumatica – the same diagnosis her father had received a few years before his death. Partway through writing it, in November, 2017, her father died. The idea that sparked the novel came to MacDonald in the fall of 2015.
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