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A NOVEL IDEA Share with us your journey to ANI Discuss the end of your novel and the choices becoming a writer. you made to have Maurice end his life. ANNE GRIFFIN I started late into writing. I was 44 and GRIFFIN I deliberated over this ending. I wrote others, it was 2013. In my 20s I was a bookseller and store and imagined plenty, but I kept coming back to this. manager of Waterstones Booksellers, a wonderful At the time of writing, I studied academic papers and chain over on this side of the world. As a history journals on suicide in older people. And there they major I became a non-fiction buyer. But through were, these terribly lonely people, forgotten perhaps, the talent and temptations of my fiction buyer unloved maybe, but certainly broken-hearted who colleagues, I became hooked on Richard Russo, Mary decided to end their lives. Maurice’s ending wasn’t all Lawson, Anne Tyler, William Trevor, Sarah Waters, that easy to write and it was upsetting. But it felt as and Jonathan Coe, to name only a handful. I left if Maurice himself kept talking to me, telling me this bookselling at 30 and went into charity work, soon to was the right thing for him. I wrote with trepidation specialize in financial management. Fourteen years and sent it out into the world hoping it might have later, I hit a crossroads where I decided I didn’t want something to say about loneliness in the older to manage money for the rest of my life so I rang community. It is upsetting to some as I expected it a friend who suggested I write. And I did. In 2015 I would be, suicide is not an easy subject. started my MA in creative writing in University College Dublin under Anne Enright and Frank McGuinness. ANI If you were to make a toast to one person in In 2017 my book When All Is Said got picked up by your life, who would it be to and why? Sceptre in the UK and Macmillan in the US; everyone GRIFFIN This changes daily. But I think today as I in Ireland had rejected it or simply not gotten back to write this it would be my mother who at 84 minds my me. It had taken me four years to work a miracle. dad who is on the cusp of being 90. It’s not easy for her and she doesn’t sleep well but she forever smiles. ANI Maurice is a surprisingly compassionate I have two great parents in my life and I count myself curmudgeon who is conscience of the impacts of exceptionally lucky. his decisions and actions. How did Maurice come to be? ANI Who were your greatest influences and how GRIFFIN Maurice is 90% my imagination, 8% do they manifest in your writing? childhood memories/adult experiences, and 1% GRIFFIN I have two or three out-and-out favourites. down to a chance meeting in a hotel in County Mayo. Richard Russo, Mary Lawson, and William Trevor. Actually 1% seems too little for this momentous With Russo, it is his dialogue; it is sharp and witty encounter. This guy in his 70s was drinking a pint and makes me laugh out loud. Russo has created alone when we got chatting. He told me two things in my favourite character in the whole world—Donald the minute or two I had with him. One was that he’d Sullivan (Nobody’s Fool and Everybody’s Fool). He, like worked in that very hotel when he was a boy, and the Maurice, is cantankerous but Russo makes you fall in second was that he wouldn’t see the morning. I never love with him anyway. With Lawson and Trevor, they got to find out why. When I walked away minutes discuss the saddest events in gentle lulling ways that later I knew these two facts would allow me to build you almost don’t realise what horrors of the human a world of a fictional character who would sit to a condition they are showing us. All of these have bar of his local hotel to drink five toasts to the five influenced Maurice and the stories he has to tell. most important people in his life. Also, at the time of writing, my father was 84 and I was able to use what ANI What is it about your little island (Ireland) concerned him and my mother most to build the voice that produces some of the biggest stories and of Maurice Hannigan. finest writers in literature? GRIFFIN The respect for all storytelling is in our ANI Maurice says of the relationship between blood. In Ireland there is a history of the seanchaí, a Sadie and her mother: “There was a love but of storyteller who went from town to town entertaining the Irish kind, reserved and embarrassed by its the population. Story tells of who we are and what we own humanity.” Please explain how this quote value. It not only expresses our culture but it reflects describes Irish character and relationships. back to the reader who we are as humans. This love GRIFFIN The Irish are portrayed as being great of writing and storytelling has, I am proud to say, led talkers, storytellers. We are, but I don’t think we’re to the promotion and protection of writers, and all always that good at letting people in. I mean artists, in Ireland’s governing institutions. really, deeply in. We are more comfortable on the surface, rarely showing what’s going on inside, even, ANI We are excited to share Central Oregon with sometimes, to close family members. This reticence or you. Is there anything you are most curious about privacy, or perhaps shame, seeing vulnerable emotion and/or hoping to experience during your visit? as a weakness, is an overriding theme of who Maurice GRIFFIN I still can’t quite believe I’ve been invited to and Sadie were and what was important what is a beautiful part of the world. You have lakes to them. and mountains and amazing wildlife and skiing and brewing companies, Maurice would be so jealous. But above all else I cannot wait to meet the readers. I’m curious and a little nervous to hear how people have taken to Maurice. I also want to hear what other books and authors people are reading. I’m always in the market for learning about new writers I really should be experiencing. The Final Five Discussion Questions

What a year for reading! Starting in January 2019, ONE the Community Nominators and Advisory Committee What was your initial reaction to the book? Did it hook you members began compiling a list of potential “A Novel immediately, or take some time to get into? Idea” books. The final list included 46 titles, and as usual the genres, topics, and settings were varied. TWO It was obvious from the start that getting to a final How did the ending resonate with you? decision was going to be tough. (See the complete list What feelings did it evoke? at https://bit.ly/3btVmnJ.) Always up for a challenge, the Advisory Committee dove in. After a herculean THREE amount of reading and some spirited discussion, they How did the characters, in particular Maurice, change throughout winnowed the list down to a phenomenal five. What’s the story? How did your opinion of anyone change? interesting to note is that all finalists are debut novels and written by women, something that has never FOUR happened in the history of “A Novel Idea.” Here is the How did you interpret the sense of justice in this story? list of the four books that rounded out the final five: FIVE American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson What were your expectations of the story based on the cover— “Rest assured that American Spy did the book live up to the cover, and to the title? will not only keep you turning the pages, it will do much more than SIX that. Wilkinson steeps her thriller If you could hear this same story from another person’s point of in a complicated awareness of view, who would you hoose? huge, thorny themes: race, Cold War amorality, the politics of our SEVEN intelligence services, and the ease Which character in the book would you most like to meet? with which we can become complicit with deeds we actually abhor.” EIGHT National Public Radio If you were to toast five people in your life, who would they be?

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim “Intricate plotting and courtroom theatrics, combined with moving insight into parenting special Suicide is a leading public health concern locally and across the globe that needs children and the psychology affects people of all identities and backgrounds. According to the World of immigrants, make this book Health Organization, over 800,000 people die by suicide globally each both a learning experience and a year. In the United States alone, suicide is rated as the 10th leading cause page-turner.” of death and Oregon State has the 15th highest suicide rate in the country Kirkus Review according to the Center for Disease Control. Fifty-seven people died by suicide in Deschutes County in 2017. There is no single cause to suicide. Some risks to be aware of include, but are not limited to: social isolation, Fruit of the Drunken Tree experiencing a mental health challenge, experiencing homelessness or job by Ingrid Rojas Contreras stress, and lack of access to effective mental health care. We can all help “Set in Bogota, Colombia, during the prevent suicide in our community by taking some of the following actions: ‘drug wars’ of the 1990s, the story • Educate yourself on effective suicide prevention efforts—a great place to line features an exquisitely intimate start is Suicide Prevention Resource Center: www.sprc.org double portrait of two young • Know the warning signs by visiting the Suicide Prevention LifeLine women—girls, really—whose lives website: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ are disrupted as well as disfigured by • Know the local resources for the entire Central Oregon region by visiting the intertwined effects of terrorism, the Central Oregon Suicide Prevention Alliance’s website: poverty, violence, and exile.” www.preventsuicideco.org San Francisco Chronicle • Get involved in local efforts, such the Central Oregon Suicide Prevention Alliance: www.preventsuicideco.org The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay “The chain of events connecting a Lastly, it is important to remember that the book, When All Is Said, is a privileged young Indian woman, fictional depiction of one person’s experience with suicide—it is not fact. It her volatile mother, and a tale- is important for us to know the facts about suicide in order to not contribute spinning Kashmiri merchant leads to harmful myths and stigma. Learn more about the facts about suicide at to tragedy in a story of religious https://afsp.org/about-suicide/. conflict and domestic damage set in contemporary India.” If you or a loved one are experiencing thoughts of suicide, there is help Kirkus Review available. Please call the Deschutes County Crises Line, which is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, at 541-322-7500 Option 9. You can also call the National Suicide Prevention LifeLine at 1-800-273-8255.

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uch of Irish history revolves around a roughly a million deaths and a million emigrants to struggle over the ownership of land, a leave Ireland, the vast majority of whom ended up in condition echoed in When All Is Said. the United States. Post-Famine Irish emigration was Beginning in the 12th century, English much more Catholic, rural, and poor, and for most of Madventurers conquered parts of Ireland from the the 19th and 20th centuries nearly every rural family native Gaels. In the 16th century, most of England would have expected some members to end up living became Protestant but the majority of Ireland abroad. Emigrant numbers remained so high that the remained Catholic, adding an aspect of religious population of the island still is less than it was prior to difference to the existing colonial situation. After two the Famine. major failed Catholic rebellions in the 17th century, the British government passed a series of laws that In addition to emigration and the struggle over land, made it very difficult for Catholics to own land. By the another important theme in the book is that of end of the 18th century, Catholics owned only 5% of modernization. Through the 1960s, Irish political and Irish land, despite comprising over two-thirds of the social leaders tended to imagine Ireland as a rural population. In the 18th and 19th centuries, many of country governed by the ethos and lifestyle of the the Protestant landed families built mansions—called farmer. There was a significant cultural and political “big houses” by the Irish—on their rural property divide between Ireland’s urban areas and its rural and ran their estates from them. Rural Catholics were population. Many common features of 20th-century usually renters or hired laborers, and a variety of urban life—cinemas, mechanization, telephone economic and religious grievances often led to poor service—were slow to come to rural Ireland. Despite relations between landlords and tenants, especially in the construction of a massive hydroelectric power the wake of the Great Famine (1845–51). By the early project in the 1920s, much of rural Ireland did not 20th century, Catholic farmers began buying back have electricity until the late 1940s and early 1950s. land from struggling Protestant landlords and the Irish Maurice’s simultaneous embrace and condemnation revolution (1916–23) saw a spate of attacks against of many aspects of “modern” life is emblematic of Protestant big houses and seizures of landlords’ land. cultural shifts that took place in rural Ireland after the Maurice Hannigan’s transformation from hired laborer Second World War. Anne Griffin’s novel, When All Is to wealthy farmer, and the corresponding decline of Said, explores themes that are rooted in Irish history the Dollard family and their “big house,” evokes many and culture. She artfully manages to bring forward of these colonial themes. issues that the Irish have long struggled with into the present where they still have an impact. Emigration also figures prominently in When All Is Said. Several key members of Maurice’s family left Ireland to seek better opportunities elsewhere, a state of affairs over which Maurice and his wife Sadie spent https://spoti.fi/2SUJxP8 much time brooding. Irish emigration had its roots JULIAN PETER PHOTO: Check out the When All Is in the 17th century, but the Famine changed Irish Said playlist on Spotify emigration patterns significantly. The Famine caused

Jason Knirck is a professor of history at Central Washington University. He is a modern Irish historian who also teaches British and Western European history. His research concerns the Irish revolution and the foundation of the Irish Free State, focusing particularly on the political rhetoric of the period. His monograph Afterimage of the Revolution: Cumann na nGaedheal and Irish Politics 1922-32 deals with the relationship between the Free State political party Cumann na nGaedheal and the legacy of the Irish revolution. His current work focuses on the Irish Farmers’ Party in the 1920s, and the roles played by opposition parties in the Free State parliament. PHOTO: TINA WALKERDAVIS

KYLEMORE ABBEY, A BENEDICTINE MONASTERY FOUNDED IN 1920 ON THE GROUNDS OF KYLEMORE CASTLE, IN CONNEMARA, COUNTY GALWAY, IRELAND A Graceful and Gracious Journey by Jennifer Sasser

all me a late bloomer, but much of what I’ve learned about nurturing connections I TRAIL ON IRELAND’S WICKLOW WAY LEADS TO learned from the elders in my neighborhood. GLENDALOUGH UPPER LAKE IN COUNTY WICKLOW My older friends were not gregarious. They Ccame from diverse backgrounds; none of us had much in common except proximity. But they all possessed what I will call a “spirit of friendship.” Even in the face of great personal losses—divorce and remarriage, decades of widowhood, financial challenges, uneasy relationships with adult children, chronic and terminal illness—they found a way to connect outside themselves.

We are learning ever more about the protective importance of positive social connections throughout the life-course. Loneliness and social isolation can be harmful experiences for humans of all ages, but especially for older persons for whom supportive and beneficial social and physical environments are crucial. Emerging national and international research suggests that loneliness is a common experience. One 2019 study of over 10,000 adults found that as many

as three in five Americans are lonely. Loneliness is DAVIS WALKER TINA PHOTO: correlated with many factors including, interestingly, A NOVEL IDEA COMMUNITY heavy use of social media. Surprisingly, Gen Z (18–22 NOMINATION COMMITTEE year-olds) had the highest rate of loneliness; Boomers Stephanie Andre had the lowest. Men, across all ages, tended to be aging is as the accumulation of experiences. Aging is Alyssa Bennett somewhat lonelier (63%) than women (58%). Other Cynthia Brandt studies suggest that social isolation may increase an ongoing, unfolding process; the aging journey is life-long, not a process marked only by decline. The Cynthia Claridge with age, though this could have more to do with an Cassie Clemans aging journey is the human journey: intricate and intensification of the underlying factors associated Michele Clements dynamic, a dance between continuing to grow and with social isolation—accumulated losses, health Joel Clements challenges, living alone, and lack of resources—than letting go. Robert Currie with aging itself. Stacey Donohue In later life our time horizon diminishes, which makes Kayla Duncan How might we contribute to our own disconnections it important to try—not once, but over and over—to Judy England from others, even our own loneliness? And, reach out to others, with openness and curiosity. We Paige Ferro Liz Goodrich conversely, how might we help others feel seen, can decide to engage in aging, because aging and living are really the same thing. Ann Malkin heard, and more connected? Perhaps the antidote Peggy O’Hara to this existential discomfort is two-fold. First, Gladys Pilz by embodying the spirit of friendship, being Jennifer Sasser is an Debbie Ross present to what’s going on outside of ourselves, educational gerontologist, Deon Stonehouse and beholding others with kindness and respect. transdisciplinary scholar, Nancy Tyler Human experiences—aging, living—are complex; and community activist. She A NOVEL IDEA ADVISORY relationships are complex. Second, the companion began as a nursing assistant COMMITTEE and senior citizen advocate practice of cultivating curiosity about our own Alyssa Bennett experiences. Reflecting on our past, the ways in which before focusing on scholarly inquiry and education. For Cassie Clemens we fell short of our own or others’ expectations, is the past 20 years Sasser Joel Clements beneficial primarily to the extent that doing so moves has focused inquiry into: Robert Currie us toward a place of acceptance and resolution and areas of creativity in later Stacey Donohue making amends. It is simply impossible to undo what’s life; aging and embodiment; Judy England transdisciplinary Paige Ferro curriculum design; Critical Liz Goodrich been done, but living weighed down by regret only Gerontological theory; Ann Malkin serves to diminish one’s capacity to live in the present. and transformational adult Chantal Strobel learning practices. She served And the present is all we have. STAFF on the Portland Community College Gerontology Tina Walker Davis Perhaps the aspiration isn’t to make it to old age faculty from 2016–18 and Paige Ferro without regrets, but rather to live gracefully and spearheaded the Ending Liz Goodrich graciously. One of my favorite ways to think about Ageism campaign. Ann Hettinger Dana O’Connell Suzy Olsen Chantal Strobel Laurel Westendorf

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