Unlike most of my work, Apples turned up in my head whole one day a few years back.
My favorite bit to write was the reveal-how could it not be? But my second favorite was the set-up. Look at my jeweled and wiggly right hand and pay no attention to what my left hand is doing! My left hand is fine. Set up, distraction, complication, reveal. She tells herself so every day.Įven the day she finds a human finger bone in her kitchen and perfection begins to slip away into the dark.Ĭomfort Me With Apples is also a magic trick. Perfection takes a lot of work to maintain, after all.
Sophia lives a perfect life with her perfect husband in a perfect gated community with a beast of a Homeowners’ Association at the heart of it. So we always knew this one would be terribly tricky to market, since I can’t actually tell anyone what it’s about without lighting the whole thing up and ruining the mystery.īut I can tell you about my second favorite bit.Ĭomfort Me With Apples is a suburban murder mystery. I can’t actually tell you about my actual favorite bit.Ĭomfort Me With Apples has the biggest twist I’ve ever committed to paper. And whenever she asks the neighbors, they can’t quite meet her gaze…. The locked basement she is never allowed to enter. The look on her husband’s face when he comes back from a long business trip. He is the perfect husband and everything is perfect.īut sometimes Sophia wonders about things. Their home together in Arcadia Gardens is perfect. Valente, for fans of Gone Girl and Spinning Silver Here’s the publisher’s description:Ĭomfort Me With Apples is a terrifying new thriller from bestseller Catherynne M. Valente is joining us today to talk about her novel, Comfort Me With Apples.
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