“And she may be going in that direction to inform you, or she may be throwing you off the path of what she’s actually up to.” “All of a sudden something will pop into her head about how many people die because they leave knives faced up in the dishwasher,” Rouda says. She is, as a result of her loss, also morbidly obsessed with unexpected tragic death. “I’m not a psychiatrist but that would probably be a good diagnosis for her.” “She is, as you said, perhaps a narcissist,” Rouda says. Jane, who seems clearly to be a narcissist, is ready to take part again in the lives of her family, husband David and daughter Betsy, but as a memorial service for Mary takes place and Betsy’s graduation approaches, is her family still there for her? And if not, to what lengths will Jane go to not be their victim? Those days mark a coming out for Jane, who has been grief-stricken, medicated and mostly housebound since the tragic drowning death of her oldest daughter Mary a year earlier. “So while she’s grieving she’s also still a full person who brings her whole life’s experiences to the four days this book covers.” “Any kind of character, especially when an entire novel is told in the first person, you’ve got to have more than a one-dimensional character,” Rouda says. Rouda has focused on writing novels for the last decade or so, with “The Favorite Daughter” her second in a two-book deal with Graydon House Books, an imprint of HarperCollins that specializes in women’s fiction, a perfect fit for Rouda’s unreliable narrator Jane.
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