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Emily Chenoweth is a former fiction editor of Publishers Weekly. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Bookforum, and People, among other publications. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
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Can you talk about the real-life event
that inspired Hello Goodbye?
My mother was diagnosed with an
inoperable brain tumor during my first
year of college. The following summer,
my father arranged a family trip to the
Mount Washington Hotel, a big, old fashioned
resort in the White Mountains
of New Hampshire, so that my parents
and their East Coast friends could spend
some time together before my mother
died. I have a handful of pictures from
that week, which I looked at a lot as
I began to write the book. I kept a
journal back then, too, but I lost it
a long time ago. Which could be a
good thing or a bad thing, I don't
know. Right now, if someone asked
me to write down what I actually
remember about that week at the
hotel, I could do it in ten pages or
less. I'm not sure if it's because I have
a terrible memory, or if it's because
not remembering is part of some
psychic defense mechanism.
Your circumstances back then sound
very much like Abby'sbut this isn't
a memoir?
No, not by a long shot. I had originally
thought I'd write a memoir (I'd sold it
on proposal as such), but then I ran into
the problem above: How do you try to
tell the truth about an ...
I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now only that place where the books are ...
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