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Delbanco’s style focuses on humor and Rosalie is wryly aware of all the events in her life, both tragic and comic. The novel focuses on everyday issues—employment, love, friendships, urban life—but Delbanco makes a point of creating a strong voices among her characters to keep the readers interest...
...Every time I opened one of those drawers or used one of those knives,” Delbanco writes, “I would remember the time he’d done it, and how happy it had made...
...novel, which is divided by snippets of sample advice columns Rosalie pours over daily, is not all airy puff about relationships. The real concerns of twenty-somethings, their ideas about careers, love and happiness, are what occupies Delbanco, whose work is thoroughly grounded in observation...
When asked if she had always wanted to be a writer, and whether her decision to pursue a career in it was affected by her father, the novelist Nicholas Delbanco, she answers in the negative...
Though she was heavily involved in theater at Harvard, Delbanco chose not to act in New York. “I made a calculated decision about my future and happiness,” she explains. “The truth of writing is you can do it when you do other things.” This was not true with acting, she realized, as without a successful audition and a part “you’re not an actor...