Why am I passionate about this?
Landscape is always important in my writing, and Yellowstone, which Iāve visited numerous times, is such a special place, rich with geodiversity and teeming with danger, that it kind of demanded to be a setting for my novel. Iāve also always been kind of obsessed with bears, and Yellowstone is grizzly country. But I didnāt want to write the stereotypical āman against natureā book. Iām too much of a feminist for that.
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Why did G. love this book?
I love how, as with my novel, the writer weaves together the stories of two women who lived in entirely different eras. I also appreciate how she brought real-world people and events, like JFK and the 1906 earthquake, into her fictional world. But what I found most evocative about The Obituary Writer were the authorās portrayal of the institution of marriage and how her āolderā protagonistāthe one dating further back in historyādedicated her life to helping others deal with grief and loss. This altruistic passion was similar to one that my historical protagonist discovered on her journey of personal growth.
1 author picked The Obituary Writer as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, obsessed with the glamour of Jackie O, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless marriage or follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier, in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien not only helps others cope with their grief but also begins to understand the devastation of her own terrible loss. The surprising connection between Claire and Vivien willā¦