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CANDACE BUSHNELL is the critically acclai novelist whose first book, Sex and the City, was the basis for the HBO hit series and subsequent blockbusterUp, One Fifth Avenue, Lipstick Jungle, and The Carrie Diaries—with the latter two h her books and television series, Bushnell has influenced and defined two generations of women She is the winner of the 2006 Matrix Award for books (other winners include Joan Didion and Amy Tan) and a recipient of the Albert Einstein Spirit of Achieverew up in Connecticut, and attended Rice University and New York University She currently resides in Manhattan and Connecticut For more information, you can visit CandaceBushnellcom or follow her on social media:

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Reading Group Guide

for

Killing Monica

by

Candace Bushnell

A Conversation with Candace Bushnell

WARNING: Contains spoilers

KILLING MONICA is really a ride: You take us forward in time, then back, then forward, and then you literally push your main character into a sort of alternate reality Did you set out to construct the book that way or did it evolve over time? What made you decide to have the main character fake her own death?

Usually when I begin a book, I have a fairly good idea of who the characters are, what happens, where the action takes place, and how the book ends When I started KILLING MONICA, ent said, “Try writing twenty pages of one of the worst days you can iine,” and so I did It was about a woman who finds out her ex-husband is about to oes to the bank and is told she can’t get a e so she will have to sell her apart dies of a heart attack in front of the deli on the corner So basically she is forced to leave New York and move to the country where she will reinvent herself

I assu city for a simpler life, finds a neay to live, rediscovers herself, and ends up with soe-appropriate-ish man”

And through this story, she would confront the terrible fears that grip soto reinvent ourselves