Zed, at a signing:
Describe your approach to writing - to writing this book, in particular?
"I started with no preconceived ideas, and I was surprised, frankly, by what emerged. Turgenev told a friend that he wanted to say more about fathers, but their sons were more interesting. I found that to be the case, as well. The fathers’ lives are written, but the sons’ lives are being written. "
And what was the impetus for the protagonist?
"The sketch was pretty vague. Angry young man. A somber figure with ideas that aren’t as poisonous as they might sound - more misguided, actually. He’s cartoonish, but he also has real needs and dissatisfactions. He’s underappreciated, and there’s a void that needs to be filled, he thinks, through work. But it’s through love. He falls in love, and the structure that he has built around himself collapses, figuratively - and quite literally, as well, for those of you who have read the book."
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