![]() ![]() The idea began with an image, “a mysterious brooding landscape,” MacDonald explains in the Advance Reader Copy. It is engrossing, gorgeous, funny – and excruciating at times. It illuminates the experience of being queer before such things were discussed openly. ![]() It is written from various perspectives – sometimes first-person, sometimes third. ![]() The story takes many unexpected twists, the reader often catching on before the characters do. Her mother died in the midst of all of this in September, 2020. “I realized I could do everything that I needed to do, slowly. She had a big chair to sit on, a little lap desk, a post to lean on, a kneeling chair, a saddle chair. Large swaths of Fayne were written with MacDonald propped up just so, in a comfortable chair, with shoulder supports, bands around her forearms, supports for her hands, neck, back and knees. But it was ultimately determined, more than a year later, that she was suffering from seronegative rheumatoid arthritis. She was initially diagnosed, in February, 2019, with polymyalgia rheumatica – the same diagnosis her father had received a few years before his death. Partway through writing it, in November, 2017, her father died. The idea that sparked the novel came to MacDonald in the fall of 2015. ![]()
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