valerie martin
January 17, 2009
- I’d like to offer additional questions for discussion at the Key West Literary Conference: Historical Fiction and the Search for Truth. Much of the discussion has centered on two questions: a) why write historical novels and b) what are the requirements of accuracy? How about: Eras in the past are marked by more than just a difference in fashion or modes of transportation; there have been ...
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June 17, 2008
- As Valerie Martin's Trespass opens, Chloe Dale is lunching in a chic Manhattan restaurant just before the second Iraq war. She is there to meet her son Toby's girlfriend, Salome Drago, for the first time. Salome, an intense, brusque Catholic Croat, is a refugee, along with her brother and father, from the Balkans. To Chloe, she is also "the vengeful orphan, the ungrateful outsider, the ...
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