![]() ![]() Press on one part without it affecting another part. Therapy institute and saw firsthand how any family is a network: you can’t I was young and thinking about a career in psychology, I worked at a family In the novel, I imagined the degree to which this could control the Who were at their rope’s end with their only child getting into constant That place, however, became the Rosenfelds’ house.Ĭharacters, meanwhile, came from elsewhere: neighborhood parents I once knew The washing machine satĪll made an impression on me-wondering how they would cope (they eventuallyĭid). Kitchen was out of commission with a plumbing problem. Old house and discovered it had lead paint. Place was chaotic, the family stressed to the max. Years ago, I visited some friends who just had a baby, their first child. How did you create the Rosenfeld family, and how would you describe the Mention this as a small correlative of what the Rosenfelds, the family at theĬenter of the novel, wish for themselves: to belong and to repair themselves,īeginning by moving from Chicago to a small Colorado town. I virtually merged into that ceremonial moment. Perfect belonging when we lifted the married couple on chairs and danced the ![]() Recently, at our daughter’s wedding, I had a transcendent moment of near World, participating and observing simultaneously. Percentage of being at odds to belonging, as we’re often witnesses to the Older and partially wiser, I’ve found belonging slips between theīoundaries of the now and the vanished. Lifelong ambivalence to find where you belong and to whom you belong.” Can youĪs a younger man, I thought belonging was some permanent state one couldĪttain. You've said, “My newest novel, The Tenderest of Strings, comes out of this He is the fiction editor of the Colorado Review. His other books include the story collection Madagascar. Steven Schwartz is the author of the new novel The Tenderest of Strings. ![]()
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