Summary: A.M. Homes is known as a challenging and provocative writer. Her works, which include the likes of The End of Alice, The Safety of Objects and This Book Will Save Your Life have been described as disturbing, terrifying, and perhaps most accurately – ‘monstrous as truth’. Her journalism appears in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and McSweeney’s and she has written for television, including for The L Word. Her newest novel, May We Be Forgiven, is a darkly surreal and remarkably funny look into a year in the life of Harry Silver, a middling academic seemingly sleepwalking through life before a shocking tragedy brings his routine existence crashing down. After his brother George kills his own wife, Harry is obliged to step in and look after the children, the pets, and George’s wardrobe. Along the way he collects a new family and begins to become a complete person again himself. A. M. joined Sky Kirkham to discuss brotherhood, Nixon and the absurd. Originally broadcast on 04/04/2013. May We Be Forgiven is out through Allen & Unwin.
