Zoe Fishman's new novel is Invisible As Air.From her Q&A with Deborah Kalb:
Q: Why did you decide to write about a character who's addicted to opioids in your new novel?--Marshal Zeringue
A: That was actually the starting point of the novel. I was and continue to be very interested in the way this epidemic has ripped through the country, destroying so many people's lives, and almost always beginning with a doctor's prescription.
Oxycodone knows so class or gender or economic strata, and I wanted to write about an unlikely, rather invisible victim: an upper-middle-class working mom who knows better but still can't help herself.
Q: You write, "So although Sylvie and the Snow family's situation is different than mine, it's my hope that by writing myself through grief, I was at least somehow able to write them authentically through it too." How did your own experience with grief inform your writing of the novel?
A: It made me much more...[read on]