6/1/2023 0 Comments Menewood![]() ![]() Nicola Griffith: Well, I think of this as sort of misted avoidance behavior. ![]() Where were you in the midst of working on another project when this emerged? Tobias Carroll: In the afterword to the novel, you talk about the fact the writing of this book came as a surprise to you. When Griffith and I spoke recently, we discussed the process of writing So Lucky, the novel’s relationship to the rest of Griffith’s bibliography, and how it relates to ongoing discussions about disability and accessibility in the literary world. (Griffith has written extensively about her own life with MS, and about portrayals of disability in fiction.) She is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and Mara's evolving approach to dealing with this forms the bulk of the book. Narrator Mara Tagarelli opens the novel at a moment of internal contradiction: while she’s the head of an influential public health nonprofit, her marriage has suddenly collapsed. That aspect of her style takes on an entirely different context in her most recent novel, So Lucky (MCD x FSG Originals). Her books are powerfully immersive, and whether she’s bringing the reader into the distant past or the far future, there’s an almost tactile quality to their settings. Nicola Griffith’s fiction abounds with detail, whether it takes place in seventh-century England ( Hild), on a distant planet on which humanity has evolved ( Ammonite), or within the complex social and economic dynamics of a near-future city ( Slow River). ![]()
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