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The sexiest question that The Book of Sins looks at is
when the market is taken to be God,
what role do the churches have?
what role does Christianity have in the society?
So the book starts with that question
and then looks at how
people who are
left out of the economic system -- survive
since --
there's only an economic voice remains
there's no more Christian voice
yet they still have to function.
Perhaps what
either makes it scarier
or makes it more real
(perhaps those are really the same thing)
is that the lives of some of the characters have happened
in our current time frame
There's two women there who were alive during Welfare Reform
now they're much older
but they bring that experience into the book
even while the younger women are trying to deal
with the experience of being
what in the society is known as "wards."
The main characters are women.
the oldest of whom is 85
the youngest of whom is 22.
[pause]
So it's very interesting.
I loved working with them in his book (laughter)
It was very interesting to see
how they developed --
in their relationships to each other. --
And how
the oldest woman, a woman named Millie Parker Klee
develops in a relationship with
a woman named Gemma Bradley
who is in her 60s
who is the voice
of the economic structure in the book, basically...
it's not just an economic structure, 'cause economics have a cult,
so it's also a cultural structures which has become a religious structure.
So, The Gemma Bradley character and
the Millie Parker Klee character
to my mind
are the two most interesting
characters
and in some ways their relationship was an altogether third character. Fun!