The debut author will be making appearances at two Southern California bookstores.
The unnamed narrator of “Thirst for Salt” is in her late thirties, single and childless, when she stumbles across a photo of Jude, her first love, holding a child. The image takes her back to that summer, 13 years earlier when she was 24 and he was 42; they both fell hard for each other but while their passion was equally strong, the way they expressed love and emotion was so different that it created an irreparable imbalance in their relationship.
Like her narrator, Lucas had a “chaotic, transient life” as a child after her parents divorced when she was a toddler yet they always “taught me to believe in myself as an artist from a young age.”Q. “Thirst for Salt” sounds self-destructive but while the relationship doesn’t last, it’s real love. He was largely inscrutable to me as well — when I started writing I was much more interested in what it would mean to her and there’s always a part of our lover that will be a mystery to us. That unknowing element is part of love’s fascination. There’s a beauty to that.
Q. Jude talks about love with a loose leash and about trust and faith. Could that have worked with someone his age with his experiences? We know he had a kid years later — do you think he adjusted his expectations and behavior? What I was trying to get in the novel was the complexity – you can have both things, love without reservation and freedom. Maybe there is something healthy about Jude’s ideas that you should have a choice and not do things out of need or obligation but there’s a limit to his own awareness in the way he treats the women in his life.I was really interested in exploring a broader picture of desire, an ambient longing for the life not lived.
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