![]() ![]() However, every now and then, someone will come up to me and say: ‘I think you’re hysterical!’ When that happens, I have to tell you, my heart just leaps with joy.” “I suppose it is, yes, though I always like to think that my work is funny – but for the most part, people don’t. She agrees with this, albeit reluctantly. This is a thoughtful, quietly profound book, and also perhaps Patchett’s most melancholic: a mother who walks away from her children, the children marked by her absence. ![]() I became fascinated by the idea of being repulsed by wealth, just walking away from it.” Karl VanDevende and Ann Patchett attend TIME’S 100 Most Influential People In The World cocktail party in New York (Photo: Getty) “I was watching the presidential election,” says Patchett, “and I had this feeling that there was this giant celebration of wealth, that the best thing in the world you could possibly wish for was to be rich. The book’s genesis was an unlikely one: Donald Trump. Margaret Atwood: The Testaments author says she ‘never expected to be a literary rock star’ ![]()
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