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"FacebookPinterest\n\nThe story of Orion: A woman, Finley, with zero memory of her past, is part of a team of eccentric detectives investigating one Professor Uppal. It seems the nutty professor is doing something sinister with his puppets. Then again, perhaps not. Much of the novel's playful charm comes from Henehan's unwillingness to explain what, exactly, Finley is up to, but the very funny sleuthing will keep you reading as the investigation reveals glimpses of Finley's former past. \n\nHere, Henehan talks about those daunting comparisons and her first novel:\n\nYou've written, essentially, an offbeat detective novel. Do you see it that way?\n\n The book originally started with these people carrying their possessions down a sixteen-lane highway\u2014the scene eventually became a bowling alley\u2014but the voice was wrapped up in my exploration of the image. I don't think of the book as a detective novel, but having a ready-made genre provided a level of comfort.\n\nFinley's world isn't one Raymond Chandler would have for one of his detective stories, but your book has an intriguing mystery. Finley has no memory of her former life. She just trusts the lead investigator who tells her she's supposed to be...\n\n Shit. For work, I recently had to watch that Goldie Hawn movie Overboard, and after she falls off the boat and loses her memory, that guy tells her she's the mother of his children. And she's like, \"Ok,\" and believes him. Are you saying I accidentally rewrote Overboard? Fantastic.\n\nActually, let's talk about your job. You're a researcher and fact-checker here at GQ. How has working in journalism influenced your writing?\n\n I've realized how much work goes into getting everything right. It makes me relieved to write fiction. I get to make it all up. My book was fact-checked. Apparently I had people drinking martinis from highball glasses.\n\nHa! So, are you much like Finley?\n\n Well, I've moved a lot. So perhaps being unconcerned about the past. I've never really gone back to any of those places. It just occurred to me: I don't have any friends from before moving to New York ten years ago.\n\nAre you close to your folks?\n\n They just emailed and said that they had turned off the TV and were sitting down to read my book together.\n\nWait. They both bought a copy or they're sharing?\n\n If anyone is going to order multiple copies, it's going to be my parents.\n\nHow do you feel about being compared to writers like Beckett and George Saunders?\n\n I think it has something to do with the worlds they create being something unusual like mine. The settings aren't easily identifiable places\u2014like, say, Manhattan 1976\u2014so you have to accept the given reality as it is in the book."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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