Margarita Montimore's new novel is Oona Out of Order.From her Q&A with Deborah Kalb:
Q: The novel has been compared to The Time Traveler's Wife and Life After Life. What do you think of those comparisons?Visit Margarita Montimore's website.
A: I haven’t read Life After Life, but it’s been on my TBR for ages and I’ve heard it’s excellent.
As for The Time Traveler’s Wife, that’s one of my favorite books, so I’m flattered by any comparisons to it.
That book is also a big reason I resisted writing Oona at first, because Audrey Niffenegger’s novel is perfection: the prose is gorgeous, and the love story it tells feels both epic and intimate. But then I realized Oona’s story would be different, beginning with her love life being far messier.
Also, I wanted use time travel to explore other relationships she’d have—romantic, familial, and platonic—as well as larger themes like...[read on]
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