When the girl comes down from the boy's room, the mother starts talking to her-and in the conversation, begins to address her as if she is the boy.
The girl spends some time in the closet where he hung himself.
The mother, exhausted by grief, allows the girl in. It centers around a girl whose boyfriend has committed suicide in his mother's house… a moldering Los Feliz mansion which recalled a house I'd visited as a child and never forgot…She shows up to see where they boy killed himself. It began as a short story inspired by the Bergman movie 'Persona'. The aftermath of a suicide in 1980 punk rock LA, picks up all my favorite obsessions: the artist's struggle, the war between permission and perfection in creative life, California and Los Angeles history, a young woman's search for the authentic self, the music of language, the vulnerability of soulful people in a materialistic world-and the poisonous effect of a narcissistic parent on a sensitive child, in this case a mother/son family romance. Thought it was about time to add Paint it Black to my books. Her novel WHITE OLEANDER was an Oprah Book Club pick and made into a motion picture. Her last novel PAINT IT BLACK was made into a feature film, available on NETFLIX. and CHIMES OF A LOST CATHEDRAL paint a portrait of a young poet coming of age during the Russian Revolution. Her current novels, THE REVOLUTION OF MARINA M. Of course, my conception of being a writer was to wear a cape and have Adventures." She has acquired a couple of capes since then, and a few adventures. "I wanted to Live, not spend my life in a library. But when she won a student exchange to Keele University in England, where her passion for Russian history led her, she awoke in the middle of the night on her twenty-first birthday with the revelation she wanted to write fiction. As an undergraduate at Reed College, Fitch had decided to become an historian, attracted to its powerful narratives, the scope of events, the colossal personalities, and the potency and breadth of its themes. Janet Fitch was born in Los Angeles, a third-generation native, and grew up in a family of voracious readers.
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