Laura Dave

摘要

Not long ago, Laura Dave was hard at work on a mystery, scrabbling through five drafts in 18 months. But as she observed in a phone interview with LJ, "Some-times, when we try to force a certain line in life, it's a sign that it's not working." So she took a two-week hiatus to try something new. "The joy I felt told me that it was the right thing to do," she explains, and she was on her way to writing the warmly bracing story of love, family, and finding oneself that became Eight Hundred Crapes. That Dave seized her chance because she was open to something different and unexpected didn't just get the novel started; it's an idea embedded in the narrative itself. After learning that her fiance, Ben, has been hiding a crucial secret, Georgia Ford bolts from a Los Angeles dress shop and returns to her Sonoma family home, declaring that the wedding won't take place.