I enjoyed being with Farrar, Straus & Giroux those years and I’m equally enjoying being with Random House. So she put the book out there and we looked at the options and what people had to offer, and Random House bid more for it. I got an agent, for really the first time, Amy Berkower.
Well, it was a business decision, really. My One Hundred Adventures is the first to be published by Random House’s Schwartz & Wade imprint. Speaking of change, until now your books were published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
So I remember very clearly that feeling at that age, but I’m not sure everyone goes through that. I really was itchy to expand my inner horizons as much as anything. I remember being 12 and just wanting to go off on a pirate ship or something. (Sept.I don’t know if it’s inescapable, or even if it’s true for everyone. A compassionate spirit infuses this luminous tale. As she comes to realize that “everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know,” Jane begins to sense what lies behind often flamboyant facades, understanding that the surly woman who has blackmailed Jane into a summer of babysitting can be “touchingly proud” of her waitress uniform that the town preacher Nellie Phipps is mostly fascinated with herself, despite her talk of spiritual growth and that a standoffish neighbor can come through in a crisis. The townspeople’s eccentricities are classic Horvath, but this time the protagonist takes charge of her own self-discovery she becomes the storyteller instead of being the audience. Newly restless with the comfortable cadences of her family’s daily routine, Jane, 12, prays for adventures and finds plenty, thanks to the inhabitants of the Massachusetts beach town where she lives. With its introspective mood and measured pace, this quietly captivating novel marks a new course for National Book Award–winner Horvath ( The Canning Season
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