![]() Mary Beth, it is such a pleasure and delight. Please join me in welcoming the lovely Mary Beth Keane to the author interview series. The writing is razor-sharp, perceptive, and moves powerfully through the narrative in a sweeping arc, covering so much ground. This is a gorgeous book in scope and practice-begging questions of forgiveness, past mistakes, family bonds, and those mundane, ordinary everyday moments that at first glance seem segmented, fragile, but also make momentous explosions in the grand scheme. ![]() There’s the Gleesons-fresh from Ireland and the Stanhopes with a bit of instability, grief, and more, setting fertile ground for an explosive neighborly connection. They live outside the city in cozy suburban area in the 1970s where they’re married and starting young families. In ASK AGAIN, YES, Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are rookie cops in the NYPD. Mary Beth Keane is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and author of the highly acclaimed novels THE WALKING PEOPLE and FEVER (optioned for screen by Elisabeth Moss)-and also one I happened to love. Plus, oh, my gosh-that cover-which could be just about Anywhere, USA. ![]() ![]() I love this book, ASK AGAIN, YES (Scribner, May 28 2019) by Mary Beth Keane, a stunningly ambitious novel of epic proportions, spanning the lives of two families over 40 years. What does it mean to forgive? That’s the overarching question of this blistering good family saga encompassing friendship, love, mental illness, violence, estrangement, and more. ![]()
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