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This month's Bibliofilles Book Club pick is Claire Daverley's hugely anticipated second novel, People in Love the follow-up to the word-of-mouth phenomenon Talking at Night. Chaya and Sophie sit down with Claire to talk about writing a love triangle with no villain, why the ending had to be both "inevitable and surprising," and the pressure of following up a debut that outgrew every expectation.
They get into grief and secondary grief, writing a mother's mental illness with real tenderness, the narrative device readers are going to want to fight Claire over, and the difference between longing for a person and longing for a version of your own life. Plus, before the interview, they revisit their older book club pick, Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, and why a novel written in the '90s and set in 2024–2027 feels less like dystopian fiction and more like a documentary.
👇 All books mentioned are linked below 👇
People in Love by Claire Daverley
👉 https://amzn.to/4hsXNeI
Talking at Night by Claire Daverley
👉 https://amzn.to/45jhtuk
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
👉 https://amzn.to/3RueHPx
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
👉 https://amzn.to/4wSMLE3
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