, is an enigma. “One question I struggle with most is what is the book about,” the Montreal-born author admits. “I was trying to create a sense of atmosphere, so it’s sort of hard to describe in one sentence.” But that atmosphere can be defined, at least in part, by its dread. Simmering under the surface of the book is a feeling of apprehension; a fear that something bad is about to happen, that a boiling point is about to be reached.
DS: There is a sense of dread simmering through the book – there’s an unexplained curfew, and the protagonist keeps talking about how she feels like something bad is going to happen. You wrote this before the pandemic, right? SB: Yeah. I mean, you hope that there will be an eventual break. But I think what’s scary is that it might never come to an end – we might just keep edging towards disaster forever until it’s too late to make a decision. And then we’re just screwed. I’m particularly talking about the climate crisis, where it does seem like our leaders are hedging their bets and seeing how long they can hold off because nobody wants to be the one to make the expensive decision, or take responsibility.
DS: The relationship between the protagonist and her friend Clara is fraught, intimate, competitive, and aSB: There’s something about the way these characters are so comfortable sitting with difficulty, to an almost pathological extent. I think obviously it’s crucial to sit with difficulty; we have to sit with discomfort in our lives. But these two people have no other mode of being. For the protagonist, particularly, difficulty is the only mode she knows.
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