How Do You Get Things Done Early as a Novelist?

I was having a really hard time writing a realistic story about this mother and son, we're not in the back of my mind I was thinking, if this book is set in 2015 then in two years from now their world is going to be completely different. So it felt almost disingenuous to not acknowledge some of those fears and those terrible things that were happening the world on the page. That's kind of how I ended up turning towards the, as you put up the market at wood kind of side of things. It just raises so many interesting questions but it made me thinkA lot about the future of democracy and also about individual families that are being affected in ways that I was just unaware