I think in some ways now also having raised a daughter, I probably now have more understanding of women than I certainly did when I was younger. It's so interesting just to think about on the one hand how gender and gender roles are so socially determined and parsed out. And yet we're also at this time where so many, especially young people are saying, I'm just not playing that game. "It is absolutely 50,000 different things all in one person every day," she says.
Best known for her controversial novels featuring extreme situations and characters, A.M. Homes discusses her most recent book, The Unfolding, and her remarkable career authoring thirteen extraordinarily original books.