![]() ![]() ![]() "When I was finally able to say it was a massive traffic accident and walk away from it," Fitch says, " I started looking through old stories and found this three-person story called Love in the Asylum’ and thought I could do something with it." It grew and grew and grew without becoming quite anything, and in the end she had to write off three years of work as a demoralizing disaster. So for a follow-up to White Oleander, she determined to write a historical novel. Fitch had been a history major at Reed College until her 21st birthday, the day she decided to become a novelist. On the downside, there was the internalized pressure to produce something bigger, better, even more ambitious in her next book. On the plus side, there was the fame, there was the fortune, there was the dinner with actress Michelle Pfeiffer, who picked Fitch’s brain about the character she would be playing in the movie version of the book. According to Janet Fitch, the overwhelming success of her previous novel White Oleander, an Oprah pick, was a mixed blessing. ![]()
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