Q: What sparked the idea for The Condition? Was it a character, a scene, or something else?
A: This is a hard question to answer—I spent years writing this book, and I'm not altogether sure what came first. It may well have been that house on the Cape.
Q: The Condition is the first of your three novels to use Massachusetts as its primary backdrop. What was it about this story that prompted you to use your home terrain as a setting?
A: Like everything I write, The Condition is...