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About The Author

Courtney Sullivan: The Kelleher family’s beautiful house in Maine is based on the family home of my best friend from high school. It was there on the beach three summers back that I first conceived of this novel. I borrowed the layout of the fictional cottage from that real-life house, as well as the story of the family building it themselves from the ground up. I wanted to explore how certain things–like alcoholism, religion, resentments, and secrets–move from one generation to the next. The mother-daughter dynamic is powerful and often fraught, and I wanted to really dig into that as well. A secluded family beach house seemed like the perfect place to let all this percolate. JG: What surprised you the most during the writing process? CS: I initially thought that there would be 10 or 12 different narrators, male and female, but four women rose to the top. Alice and Maggie are the generational bookends. Kathleen represents the one who went away–the complex blend of guilt and freedom that comes from throwing off one’s familial responsibilities. Ann Marie is essential because, as an in-law, she represents a sort of outsider, even though she is Alice’s main caretaker. Though we’re not inside the heads of the other characters, I tried to make every member of the family three-dimensional. Many early readers have said that Daniel, the grandfather, is their favorite character, and he died 10 years before the present day action of the book. There’s something about that that seems right to me, since often the people whose presence looms largest are the ones who are no longer here. JG: What would you be doing if you weren’t a writer? CS: I’ve always secretly wanted to be a kindergarten teacher. When I was 19, I lived in London for a year and worked as a nanny for a family with three boys under the age of 2. I’ve never had a more challenging, fast paced job. I loved every second of it. JG: What else are you reading right now? CS: I’m loving “A Good Hard Look” by Ann Napolitano. It’s a beautiful novel about Flannery O’Connor’s life in her small hometown. Next up are Tina Fey’s “Bossypants” and a collection of short stories by Emma Straub called “Other People We Married.” I’m heading to Maine for vacation in August, and dreaming of spending long, leisurely hours reading on the beach. JG: What’s next for you? CS: I’m in the early stages of a new novel. It’s a portrait of four very different marriages that span the course of the twentieth century, and have something surprising in common. One character is a paramedic in the 1980s, and I recently got a chance to do an ambulance ride-along, to get a sense of what his average day might look like. I love having the ability to peer into people’s private worlds. That might be the best part of being a novelist.

septiembre 1, 2019

(AP) ACAPULCO, Mexico – Carlotta was downgraded to a tropical depression on Saturday as the system rapidly weakened after killing two young sisters in its march across southern Mexico. The National Weather Service’s National Hurricane Center in Miami said Saturday that the government of Mexico had discontinued all watches and warnings for Carlotta, which reached hurricane strength on Friday. Earlier Saturday, the Miami center discontinued the hurricane warning that had been in effect from Salina Cruz to Punta Maldonado and the hurricane watch from west of Punta Maldonado to Acapulco. Carlotta on Saturday pushed northward toward the resort city of Acapulco after making landfall near the Mexican beach town of Puerto Escondido in the southernmost part of Oaxaca state, where it toppled trees and shook tourist hotels. “We don’t care about the rain, we’re going to have fun at the club,” said tourist Alejandra Flores, who took a bus with a friend yesterday from Guadalajara to Acapulco. People in Acapulco were calm and dining in restaurants late Friday. Earlier Friday, Carlotta had toppled billboards and shattered some windows in Puerto Escondido, a laid-back port popular with surfers, where it reached land as a Category 1 hurricane. “The wind is incredible and the trees are swaying so much. A window just shattered,” said Ernesto Lopez, a 25-year-old engineer who was visiting Puerto Escondido in Oaxaca state for a graduation. Coral Ocampo, receptionist at the Hotel Careyes, said the wind tore down the skinnier palm trees and she asked guests to return to their rooms and stay there until the storm had passed. Oaxaca’s civil protection service said some roads near the resorts of Huatulco and Pochutla were affected by mudslides, and that authorities had opened emergency shelters and evacuated dozens of families from low-lying areas. Civil protection service spokeswoman Cynthia Tovar said Saturday that two sisters, aged 13 and 7, died Friday in the Oaxaca state community of Pluma Hidalgo when a mudslide collapsed their home. The storm also washed out some coastal roads, leaving dozens of communities unreachable by land. Thousands of people throughout the state lost electricity and cellular phone service. Carlotta had strengthened into a powerful Category 2 hurricane earlier Friday and forecasters had expected it to move northward, parallel to the coastline, possibly reaching Acapulco as a hurricane. But instead it moved inland and weakened. By late Saturday morning, the system’s maximum sustained winds were at about 35 mph, and Carlotta was moving west-northwest at 12 mph. It was centered about 50 miles north-northeast of Acapulco. Ines Vos, a German who has lived on Mexico’s coast for 22 years and now runs the Beach Hotel Ines in Puerto Escondido, said she had readied the hotel’s generator and stocked up on gasoline and bottled water in preparation for the storm. “In the morning, a lot of people left, they didn’t want to stay because nobody knows how the roads will be” after Carlotta, said Vos, who lived through Hurricane Pauline in 1997. Pauline made landfall at Puerto Escondido with winds of 109 mph, killing at least 230 people along the Pacific coast. The part of Oaxaca state and neighboring Guerrero state that the storm is passing over is full of mountainous terrain that can experience flash floods under heavy rainfalls. Officials warn that rains could still present a danger.

septiembre 4, 2019

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