Marc Chua asked Chris Bohjalian:

Not a question-just a thank you.... I've greatly enjoyed every book of yours that I've read, but The Flight Attendant and The Double Bind were special. What was your impetus behind The Double Bind? -Marc

Chris Bohjalian Thanks for asking, Marc. It might be the most complicated backstory of any of my twenty books. But to get a hint at its origins, visit these pages on my web site and surf around a bit:

http://chrisbohjalian.com/campbell/

Thanks again for your faith in my work.

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People talk about "Aha!" moments. What about "I've stopped caring!" moments? Can you recall a particular instance, in writing or in life, where stopping caring was the cure? Where letting go jettisoned you forward, helped you get unstuck?

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Not a question-just a thank you.... I've greatly enjoyed every book of yours that I've read, but The Flight Attendant and The Double Bind were special. What was your impetus behind The Double Bind? -Marc

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Reading "The Sleep Walker" & loving it. Early in the book when describing the mother's abandoned room, a book as "a beautiful black-and-silver doorstop of a novel about Marilyn Monroe, . . ." Were you referring to the novel by Joyce Carol Oates?

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

People talk about "Aha!" moments. What about "I've stopped caring!" moments? Can you recall a particular instance, in writing or in life, where stopping caring was the cure? Where *letting go* jettisoned you forward, helped you get unstuck?

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People talk about "Aha!" moments. What about "I've stopped caring!" moments? Can you recall a particular instance, in writing or in life, where stopping caring was the cure? Where letting go jettisoned you forward, helped you get unstuck?