The most obvious thing to say is that what happened in the fall of 2017, the allegations about Harvey Weinstein-sexual assault, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, rape-all of those started coming out. I tried for a while and it wasn’t working for whatever reason. I was interested in trying to write a story about that somehow. But I have been in relationships where the power dynamic was unequal in a way that was both appealing and, in retrospect, damaging. I, to be clear, never had an affair with any of my professors. She talks about having an affair with a professor. Miranda Popkey: One entry point was that I had wanted, and I’d been trying for some time, to write about a particular relationship dynamic that I have experienced, which is exaggerated in the story that the narrator tells when she is at a new moms’ group. What was your entry point? How did you navigate fitting all of this into the novel? I had the chance to talk with Popkey over the phone about her book, as well as women’s anger, power dynamics in relationships, how desire is formed by the stories to which we’re exposed, and the ways narrative functions in our lives.Īlexandra Chang: You write that you believe a writer shoves into her first novel “more or less everything she has ever thought, seen, read, loved, hated, experienced.” In your book, you do tackle so many topics-desire, power dynamics, class, art, motherhood, anger, friendship, storytelling, and more. They are spiked with equal doses of hurt and want. The women of Popkey’s novel are searching, skeptical, and hyperaware. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.“There is, below the surface of every conversation in which intimacies are shared, an erotic current… This is the natural outcome of disclosure, for to disclose is to reveal, to bring out into the open what was previously hidden,” reflects the narrator as she listens to another woman tell the story about her marriage’s end. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.

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