Like the protagonist of her 2006 novel, 'Love and Other Impossible Pursuits,' Ayelet Waldman is a Jewish redhead who attended Harvard Law School and is madly in love with her husband. But the obvious similarities end there.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.
My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.
There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards.
People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that.
In the late 1990s, I wrote a book from the point of view of a young black woman who has barricaded herself in her college dorm room, pursued by a man, either real or imagined, who finally materializes as the father she has never known.
It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.
The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.