Zevin was interested in “Americans and debt,and how by oppressing people financially, you get to control them politically.” And 2017’s Young Jane Young wasfinished as Hilary Clinton competed with Donald Trump. Her 2010 book, The Hole We’re In, features a family sucked dumbly into consumerism and a daughter’s drive to transcend it. But it also offers a salient political and cultural critique-all Zevin’s fiction does.
The novel is heartwarming and beautifully crafted each chapter opens with an ingenious plug from Fikry for a real short story hinting at what’s to come: “Lamb to the Slaughter,” by Roald Dahl, and “A Conversation with My Father,” by Grace Paley, among others. “I mean, the French get it: they call books ‘an essential good,’ you know?” “ Fikry was really about how we have some ability to affect what our townscapes look like and, to me, bookstores were, and are, an issue of vital importance-I really wanted them to survive,” she says from the Los Angeles home she shares with partner Hans Canosa ’93 and their two aging rescue dogs. And in promoting her book, she championed independent stores, libraries, and devoted print readers. Fikry (2014) while worrying about Amazon’s widening grip. Novelist Gabrielle Zevin ’00 wrote The Storied Life of A.J. “No man is an island every book is a world.” The motto, adapted from John Donne, appears on a weathered sign for the ailing bookshop owned by the irascible A.J.
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