![]() ![]() you could be anywhere right now, and that's where I wanted my characters to be. "Where are we right now? There's not a cloud in the sky," Straub says. I wanted them to exist in a New York City that a lot of people don't know exists, the quiet one. You could be anywhere right now, and that's where I wanted my characters to be. The main drag is a busy shopping area - music blasts from passing cars - but turn off that street and suddenly you're in another world, of shady streets lined with big old clapboard and shingled houses set in blooming gardens. Then she thought of Ditmas Park, which is in Brooklyn, but not the Brooklyn you're thinking of. "It seemed so not what I wanted to do, just 'cause who needs another book about Brooklyn," she says wryly. She thought she would set it in her own neighborhood in Brooklyn - but she kind of hated that idea. She knew there would be a family in it, with a teenage son. Straub tells me she played around with the idea for this book for a long time. Her new one is Modern Lovers, and it's set in Brooklyn's Ditmas Park neighborhood, where we met up for a stroll. Her last book, The Vacationers, was a best-seller. But there's no hint of horror in Emma Straub's work her fiction tends more toward genial explorations of marriage and family and friendship. ![]() Her father is Peter Straub, a writer who specialized in the genre. How?Įmma Straub was raised in a house of horror - horror fiction, that is. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Modern Lovers Author Emma Straub ![]()
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