The author’s new book keeps readers wondering about what is real in this fictional world.
In the opening pages of Tom Rachman’s “The Imposters,” we meet an aging British couple, Dora and Barry—she’s a novelist with a small and diminishing audience, he’s a divorce lawyer turned couples therapist. Their scenes are emotionally nuanced and grounded until the moment Dora is waiting for Barry to come downstairs.
This is the fourth novel by Rachman, and it hits stores June 27. His first, “The Imperfectionists,” centered on newspaper journalists and was a best seller. All of his books, which include “The Rise & Fall of Great Powers” and “The Italian Teacher,” earned critical acclaim and share some thematic similarities.
Q. One character says, “That’s the real midlife crisis: You’re irrelevant.” Do you worry about that for you and for novelists in general? It’s all the things you just said. The book has humor all the way through but this does feel like a world in jeopardy — the absolute chaos that climate change is bringing, the extremist politics shredding democracy, which is making people lose faith in the system and human beings, and also the elements of technology that arrive as marvels but transform our lives in ways that aren’t marvelous. It feels like things are out of our control now.
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