Kristen Amen
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Chris Bohjalian:
Just wanted you to know we read Light in The Ruins for our library's Ladies' Night Out Book Club and had a most fascinating discussion. I've been a big fan of yours for years and am continually happy to recommend your books to our library patrons. What book are you currently working on?
Chris Bohjalian
Why thank you, Kristen - and please thank your book group for me. I am always so honored when a book group selects one of my novels.
I followed "The Light in the Ruins" with "Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands" in 2014. The paperback arrives next Tuesday, May 26. I still miss Emily Shepard -- the narrator -- a lot, and worry about her daily. You can read about this novel right here on Goodreads.
My next novel is "The Guest Room," which is finished. It arrives on January 5, 2016. Below is how the flap copy describes it. Fingers crossed my work never disappoints you. Thanks again!
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room; two women are on the run from police; and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams.
When Richard Chapman offers to host his younger brother's bachelor party, he expects a certain amount of debauchery. He sends his wife, Kristin, and young daughter off to his mother-in-law's for the weekend, and he opens his Westchester home to his brother's friends and their hired entertainment. What he does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, a dangerously intimate moment in his guest bedroom, and two naked women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards before driving off into the night. In the aftermath, Richard's life rapidly spirals into a nightmare. The police throw him out of his home, now a crime scene; his investment banking firm puts him on indefinite leave; and his wife finds herself unable to forgive him for the moment he shared with a dark-haired girl in the guest room. But the dark-haired girl, Alexandra, faces a much graver danger. In one breathless, violent night, she is free, running to escape the police who will arrest her and the gangsters who will kill her in a heartbeat. A captivating, chilling story about shame and scandal, The Guest Room is a riveting novel from one of our greatest storytellers.
I followed "The Light in the Ruins" with "Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands" in 2014. The paperback arrives next Tuesday, May 26. I still miss Emily Shepard -- the narrator -- a lot, and worry about her daily. You can read about this novel right here on Goodreads.
My next novel is "The Guest Room," which is finished. It arrives on January 5, 2016. Below is how the flap copy describes it. Fingers crossed my work never disappoints you. Thanks again!
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room; two women are on the run from police; and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams.
When Richard Chapman offers to host his younger brother's bachelor party, he expects a certain amount of debauchery. He sends his wife, Kristin, and young daughter off to his mother-in-law's for the weekend, and he opens his Westchester home to his brother's friends and their hired entertainment. What he does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, a dangerously intimate moment in his guest bedroom, and two naked women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards before driving off into the night. In the aftermath, Richard's life rapidly spirals into a nightmare. The police throw him out of his home, now a crime scene; his investment banking firm puts him on indefinite leave; and his wife finds herself unable to forgive him for the moment he shared with a dark-haired girl in the guest room. But the dark-haired girl, Alexandra, faces a much graver danger. In one breathless, violent night, she is free, running to escape the police who will arrest her and the gangsters who will kill her in a heartbeat. A captivating, chilling story about shame and scandal, The Guest Room is a riveting novel from one of our greatest storytellers.
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Louis Bay
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Chris Bohjalian:
Hello!, Our book club "Fiction Addiction," just finished your book, The Guest Room, we absolutely loved it! On the edge of your seat drama, and suspense,while at the same time bringing up the serious issue of human trafficking. The ending left us with a questions for you though Will there be a sequel about the lives of the characters after everything that has happened? Curious to know how they turned out!
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