Before the publication of her debut novel 'A Good Happy Girl,' author Marissa Higgins told us why the book's protagonist isn't an easy sell.
, Helen, is not an easy sell. She’s at times grotesque, a quality reflected on the book’s dust jacket, which features a close-up of a mouth inhaling a sloppy hamburger. Reliant on shots of cough syrup to alleviate the trauma of her parents’ lifetime of bad deeds, Helen also cycles through other distractions: filming her feet for an internet audience and hopping in bed with a married lesbian couple, Katrina and Catherine.
ROSEN: It definitely speaks to the main character, Helen. You can’t look away from her, even though some things are slightly off-putting. I know that at first the book was called, which makes sense because it’s about a woman who’s entering into a relationship with married wives. I’m curious how you arrived at the title.already exists, and another book calledis also out this April.
ROSEN: This is your first book. Were you at all fueled or deterred by the idea of not being good enough? What were the feelings that came along in the process of writing your first novel? ROSEN: Yeah, I really wish that I had caught on to her childlike nature. There’s one moment where she wonders if her face has begun to bleed—”my nose hanging from my nasal cavity, eyes out of my sockets”—and it does remind me of the way in childhood, you just catastrophize every little moment. I do want to make sure that we talk about the unconventional relationship in the story, which is that Helen becomes part of Catherine and Katrina’s marriage.
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