![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book was over, but I was very much living the realities of it.” I’d written this book about the safety net, and everything was broken. “During Covid, I got an email congratulating me about Want while we were packing up our apartment because my husband lost his job,” she says. Angry posts on Goodreads said Want’s narrator, Elizabeth, should suck it up and leave New York, just as Strong and her husband had to, well, suck it up and leave New York. The intensely first-person account, centered on a Brooklyn academic whose family’s economic situation turns dire, found critical acclaim and substantial readership-but Strong’s life didn’t exactly change. Her second novel, Want, hit shelves in summer 2020, and like the rest of us, she was essentially locked inside her home at the time. But Strong comes at this fear from a particular experience. “But I feel so scared and uncertain around being a writer.”Įvery writer can relate, surely. ![]() “I love writing, I really do-I’m not one of those writers that doesn’t like it,” she says via Zoom from her home in Portland, Maine. She’s reading, scrolling through social media, looking for anything to distract her from her complicated feelings around the publication of her next book, Flight (Mariner, Nov.). ![]()
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