Before heading out on his book tour, Garth Risk Hallberg joined fellow writer Tommy Orange to talk about his new novel, 'The Second Coming.'
begins in the Spring of 2011, with 13-year-old Jolie drunkenly searching for her iPhone on the subway tracks. Her near-miss leads to a reconnection with her estranged father and a reckoning with their relationship, a dynamic Hallberg writes from a place of keen emotional perception. Fiction, he explains, is “this incredibly plastic medium for rendering those movements between self and other.
ORANGE: It’s true. And there’s also good pages on days you feel like complete garbage, and you find it later and you’re like, “Wow, I don’t know how that sentence happened on that kind of day.” HALLBERG: The inside-out thing, that’s a deep place where I feel this resonance with your work because that’s so important to me as a writer. I think the reason it’s important has something to do with how we experience life and how you move through the world. You’re not experiencing your life as a Wikipedia entry where everything is clearly labeled. You’re just moving through moods and feelings and scenes, like you said.
HALLBERG: Yeah. There’s this generational way in which the story belongs to the youngest generation, in the same way that when you have kids you realize like, “Oh, shit. This isn’t my story anymore. I’m just a supporting character and someone else is the star.” That’s how it looks from the outside, but from the inside it doesn’t feel like that. It’s everybody’s story, and it’s often not quite clear whose story it is.
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