Gerhard
Gerhard asked Chris Bohjalian:

The Light in the Ruins is as much a horror novel as it is a love story and a family history. You seem to love to bend genres and wrong-foot the reader: is this a conscious strategy on your part, or does it flow naturally from the type of stories you like to tell?

Chris Bohjalian Thanks, Gerhard. A great question. I think you're on to something. I hope never to write the same book twice or fall into a formula. My readers are wonderful and I never want to let you down. This novel actually began as a re-imagining of Romeo and Juliet set in Tuscany at the end of the Second World War. The serial killer? That character came much later -- and mostly because I couldn't bring myself to allow Serafina to die and wondered what she was up to a decade later. Thanks for asking!

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