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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

Video: Syrian rebels determined to win or die trying Syria’s official SANA news agency said “armed terrorist groups” – the regime’s phrase for rebels – had been pushed out from areas on both sides of the airport, which is located about 15 kilometers (nine miles) southeast of Aleppo’s historical center. The report did not make it clear whether the fighting was closer to the international airport or the adjacent military airfield, a base for carrying out airstrikes on rebel sites in the north. Aleppo carries major symbolic and strategic value. It’s the commercial hub of northern Syria and close to rebel-held territory and critical supply corridors to the Turkish border. Rebels have sought control of the ancient center, dominated by a medieval castle that is part of the city’s UNESCO World Heritage Site. That would deal an embarrassing blow to the regime’s claim that its overwhelming firepower can halt opposition advances. “Those who think that the Syrian Arab army will be defeated are dreaming,” said Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid Moallem in a state TV interview late Thursday. Civilians, meanwhile, have been increasingly caught in the crossfire, and many are fleeing to safety in nearby Turkey. The U.N. refugee agency spokesman Adrian Edwards said 3,500 people crossed into Turkey on Tuesday and Wednesday. Edwards told reporters in Geneva there are now almost 65,000 Syrians in nine refugee camps in Turkey, about 40 percent of them new arrivals this month. In Jordan, nearly 2,700 Syrians have entered since Tuesday, swelling the numbers there to over 150,000. Beyond the refugees who have fled to neighboring countries, the U.N.’s humanitarian chief Valerie Amos estimated that as many as 2.5 million people inside Syria need relief assistance. The core of Assad’s military and political power appears to remain in place, but major cracks have emerged in the wider reaches of his regime. They include high-level military and political defections and the ability of rebel guerrillas to stage bombings and abductions in the heart of the capital, Damascus. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who visited Syria’s neighbors Jordan and Lebanon this week, told France’s Europe-1 radio Friday that he was told “there will be new defections on a large scale.” He gave no other details. Fabius also defended France’s refusal to send weapons to the Syrian rebels, despite their appeals for military help. He claimed rebel backers Qatar, Saudi Arabia and others are sending arms to the rebels although there has been no evidence of sharply enhanced military firepower by the anti-Assad forces. “We Europeans decided on an arms embargo,” he said. “We are not going to contradict our own positions.” In Lebanon, tensions from Syria have spilled over into the volatile patchwork of factions backing the rebels and others firmly behind Assad’s regime, such as the Iranian-backed militant and political group Hezbollah. In the most prominent incident yet, a powerful Shiite Muslim clan claims to have taken more than 20 Syrian nationals and a Turk hostage in retaliation for the seizure of a family member by rebels in Syria this week. The clan said Thursday it was calling off “military operations” and would halt abductions for now. Another captive was taken by unknown gunmen. Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said a Turkish truck driver, Abdel Basit Erslan, was seized as he was driving in the Beirut suburb of Choueifat. It was unclear who was behind the abduction Thursday night. The U.S. and Turkey issued security warnings for Lebanon. On its website, the U.S. Embassy called on its citizens to take extra security precautions, adding that it had received reports of a higher chance of attacks on U.S. nationals. Kidnapping, it added, was another possible threat. The embassy also announced the suspension of the Fulbright and the English Language Fellow student exchange programs. The Turkish Foreign Ministry also advised its citizens to avoid all non-essential travel to Lebanon and urged Turks already in the country to take safety precautions. Arab Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE called this week on their citizens to leave Lebanon immediately.

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