She ascends to the Beyond where she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. It's one of those places that people fall in love with because there is no place else like it.In this satisfying page-turner from "the queen of beach reads" ( New York Magazine ), a Nantucket novelist has one final summer to protect her secrets while her loved ones on earth learn to live without their golden girl. It also has fifty miles of pristine public beach. It has cobblestone streets and Quaker meetinghouses and no traffic lights and no chain stores. Nantucket is one of the last remaining authentic places in America. What is it about Nantucket that makes it a great setting for your books?
But if she knew nothing about it, this is Biblically tragic.” I decided I wanted to write a novel about a woman whose husband committed massive financial fraud where the woman knew nothing about it. I thought, "All right, if she was conspiring in the crimes, this isn't interesting. It told the story of Ruth Madoff and how she could no longer get her hair colored at her salon and no longer eat out at her favorite restaurant, and something about the article pierced me.
In April 2009, I read an article in the New York Times Sunday Style section called "The Loneliest Woman in New York". Tell us about how the story of Bernie Madoff’s wife inspired your latest novel Silver Girl.
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