The author spoke with The Globe and Mail about her new book, the alternate timeline she’d most like to be living in and more
explores the different outcomes of a single relationship. It follows a couple, Myriam and Allison, across several alternate realities, with each chapter presenting a new timeline. In every story, they find themselves facing the gut-wrenching, the uncanny, the absurd. In one timeline, they’re lesbian influencers – in another, they accidentally steal a baby. In another, they’re literally a reptile and a dog. Each one is a fantasy that slowly unravels over time.
Having one of the book’s main characters bear your name obviously raises questions about how much of you is in the book. It was more of an emotional project for me. I had a lot of anxiety come up in this particular relationship. I’m sure many people have experienced this, but anxiety is very speculative. You’re always imagining you’re one step ahead of what’s going to happen. And so that’s more where the form came from for me.
The book’s concept comes from a list of outcomes I’d written early on in my relationship, and they were all super rose-tinted. I tried to make it artsy, but when I look back at it, I was, like, 24 and in love. Years later, after the relationship had fallen apart, I went back to that list to see what my expectations had been. So, yes, I think the project was quite personal for me: It was a way to trace how I could have had such high hopes.
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