Mirabile Dictu: Which of your books is your favorite (besides Realm)? But before I figured out what I wanted to write, I floundered for about a year. Steve Yarbrough: Well, from start to finish, about eighteen months. Mirabile Dictu: How long did it take you to write the book?
I find my path by groping in the darkness.
The other themes, though, came to me during the writing process. But during the economic downturn a lot of people were uprooted against their will, and I wanted to see what it might be like for a couple like that. Both times, we wanted to make the move, and this last move in particular has led to great happiness, because we love New England. My wife and I had moved from one coast to the other twice: from east to west in 1988 and from west to east in 2009. Steve Yarbrough: I consciously wanted to explore dislocation. Did you set out to explore this theme? Or did it just come together? Mirabile Dictu: Your stunning new novel, The Realm of Last Chances, addresses the issue of dislocation in middle age.
It is powerful and moving, my favorite novel of the year.Īnd Steve Yarbrough, an award-winning novelist and a Professor of the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College, generously agreed to be interviewed here. Like a lot of people around the country over the last few years, they’d recently experienced a run of bad luck.īeing in my fifties and seldom finding novels with middle-aged protagonists, I bought this book and rushed home and read it in one sitting. They were both fifty when they moved to Massachusetts, settling in a small town a few miles north of Boston. His was the only book in the Y’s and I loved the title and the first paragraph: I found Steve Yarbrough’s novel, The Realm of Last Chances, by serendipity.
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