![]() ![]() ![]() Please talk a little about how living there nurtured your writing (presumably in a different way than San Francisco, yes?) You lived in Colorado for a while, and your new book, The Possibilities, is set there. I think my characters are incredibly close – so close that they can’t hide – they have the luxury of behaving badly, and eventually realize that there’s no right way to grieve no right way to be happy. Sometimes it’s there because despite all the emotions, all of the vague needs, there is a task to complete that trumps feelings and requires characters to clash and act. Sometimes tension is created from being with a person your entire life and realizing you don’t know them at all. Can you talk about the tension this creates? Your books explore how grief is meant to be a time of togetherness, but togetherness doesn't seem to work for the family members in your novels. ![]() You get asked a lot why you write about family relationships. Praised as “audaciously comic” by The New Yorker, Hemmings’ honest writing also comes with a refreshing twist of dry humor-like a poignant tale about personal discovery and healing should. Hemmings celebrates the release of her second novel, The Possibilities, which explores the struggles of a grieving mother as she faces the death of her son, Cully, who died in an avalanche near their home in Breckenridge, Colorado. Bestselling author of The Descendants, Kaui Hart Hemmings, comes to San Francisco tomorrow to talk shop with Michelle Richmond, author of the new novel Golden State. ![]()
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