The Importance of Family in a Novel

The main narrative that you're dealing in here, this relationship between Jude and the narrator, is an opportunity to explore how our parents teach us about what a loving relationship looks like. I feel like if you're going to write a novel about love, how could you not talk about family, which is for better or worse, our first experience of what love is or can be? That was something that I was thinking about a lot.

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