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Indeed, at the end of the chapter, Pandy muses to Henry, “Is it hu for love, beyond any evidence that such a thing is possible?”

And then, because this is a co she has vowed not to:

Fall in love with Jonny

Let’s talk about Jonny

Jonny is representative of the dangers of constructing one’s life on a fairy tale And because this is a comedy, I tried to make Jonny just about the worst man I could think of I know I could think of et aithout turning the book into so completely different

And I also really, really wanted Jonny to get hoisted up on the leg at the end Not just because of the potential sye of Monica’s boot, but because the ie is so much a part of my comedic aesthetic I love broad comedy It’s really hard to pull off—you wouldn’t believe how et Jonny to the da in the first place

Your main character is a writer and you yourself are a writer You also, like Pandy, grew up in Connecticut

Yes I grew up in sort of the country/suburbs in the 1960s Pandy’s life, however, is coination run wild and described what, I suppose, would be inally Wallis House had secret staircases and roo advances Then I caave Pandy alife than rown up, there wasn’t even a movie theater

What Pandy and I both share, however, is that desire to create The whole idea of Monica caold,” thatstories about We both alanted to be Marigold We would fight over her, and soold would die But then she would always come back to life

The other thing I gave Pandy and Hellenor was irl in the 1960s was very different than it is now—for instance, a woman wasn’t allowed to have her own credit card

Growing up in the 1960s, it was prettya wo away froe because it was literally everywhere you went As soon as you left the house in your required clothing—a dress—you began to hear the e You heard it in the classrooirls, from their own fathers

Pandy and SondraBeth’s relationship is explosive; when they get together, crazy misadventures ensue This is a theme used more often with male leads in “bromances” or “buddy” movies

Yes, and interestingly it happens in a lot of real women’s lives So many women tell me that Pandy and SondraBeth’s adventures remind them of adventures they had once with their best friends Maybe because of that, I wanted to send Pandy and SondraBeth on a real madcap adventure

I loved the idea of these for inadvertently thrown together through a series of co each other after not being in contact for a few years Some of my favorite scenes in the book involved these two They had tiny personal scenes, like when Pandy does her “audition” in front of SondraBeth—and enormous “spectacle” scenes with speeches One of the hardest scenes to write hen SondraBeth finally realizes Pandy is Pandy There are soon in that iveness…

Speaking of forgiveness, not every wo sex with “her man”