![]() ![]() ![]() Keane says that her parents “ were aging and talking about their regrets, couples I thought of as solid were splitting up, people were drinking far too much, losing jobs, risking things we’d all worked so hard to get.” She was particularly affected by her husband’s long estrangement from his parents and began to look for a way to explain that break to their children. She explains, “It was as if I reached 40 and everyone started losing it a little, and I began ‘Ask Again, Yes’” - a contemporary saga of two suburban New York families, which debuts this week at No. Mary Beth Keane, who brought Typhoid Mary to life in her last novel, “ Fever,” was researching another historical novel when, she says, “real life kept intervening in the form of one crisis after another, either in my own family or those of my friends, so it began feeling more and more odd to turn away from the drama of real life just to step into made-up drama of the past.” ![]()
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