![]() And marriage, she adds, “is its own tiny, tiny community in which you have to negotiate, give certain things up, acknowledge things that you may not want to, and so on. ![]() “There was something about that book that felt incomplete about the town and the community,” she explains. And indeed, the writer says, it was her previous novel - specifically its setting of the fictional New York City suburb of Gillam - that inspired The Half Moon. Out now, the novel is one of the spring’s most anticipated releases, particularly for readers eager to see Keane tackle the intricate complexities of family and marriage once again after Ask Again, Yes. That book turned into The Half Moon, a moving, thoughtful novel about a recently separated couple dealing with career changes, grief, and a record-breaking snowstorm during a tumultuous week in their lives. “You just have to write the book that you want to write at the moment.” ![]() ![]() “There’s nothing I can do about that,” Keane adds, speaking on the pressure to compete with such a market hit. Instead of letting that self-doubt infect her writing, she pushed forward, creating a new novel that felt vivid and strong on its own and letting others worry instead about whether it’d “live up to its big sister’s success.” Like so many other writers - whether they’ve written New York Times bestsellers or not - Keane is no stranger to impostor syndrome, she says, and back in 2020, when she started work on her fourth novel, it caused her to feel like a newcomer. ![]() $26 at Bookshop Credit: Scribner Book Company ![]()
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