![]() ![]() How did you go about researching the events? Were there any details you had to tweak to make the plot flow? This novel is full of rich details about the respective eras. ![]() Both are interesting eras to compare and contrast. ![]() (One newspaper described the neighborhood as full of “goats, swamps, rocks, and shanties.”) I chose 1985 because the city was going through a Gilded Age of its own then, with bankers and their Rolex watches. I chose 1884 because that was the year the Dakota opened – a luxury apartment building in the wilds of the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The Address is a fascinating story that takes place in 18, what made you decide to write this novel from the point of view of these two radically different eras? The genre is probably best described as historical fiction peppered with an element of mystery. The book takes place in New York City’s famous Dakota apartment house, and weaves the story of a young woman who comes to work in the building in 1884, with that of an interior decorator charged with stripping an apartment of all its period details in 1985. For those who have not read The Address, how would you describe it? ![]()
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