“This is a story about steeling yourself for good news.” Allegra Goodman discusses her short story from this week’s issue, “The Last Grownup,” about a mother of two whose ex-husband has embarked on a new relationship.
,” is about a woman called Debra, a mother of two girls, whose ex-husband has embarked on a new relationship. She doesn’t regret her divorce, but she still appears to feel a little fragile about it. Why did you want to write about this particular period in her life?
According to Debra’s ex-husband, Richard, she is always “fast-forwarding”; she thinks of this as foresight and planning. Could Debra ever not be a planner?Debra believes that the next stage in Richard’s new relationship will be marriage. She’s already planning how the girls should learn about this when Richard tells her that his girlfriend, Heather, is pregnant.
Her daughters are thrilled when they hear the news. There’s a sense that everything’s fun and lighthearted at Richard and Heather’s. Do you think that this lightheartedness will survive the arrival of the new baby?Another character in the story is the family’s dog, Max, a Samoyed. Is he the one constant part of Debra’s life?
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