Emma Cline says her new book ‘The Guest’ is a reaction to her debut novel ‘The Girls,’ which was “so much about the way the past informs the present.”
“I didn’t know what the specifics were, but I knew where I wanted the book to leave this character.”
When we first meet that character, 22-year-old Alex, she is spending August at her boyfriend Simon’s Hamptons house. He’s in his 50s, and during the day while he works Alex takes his painkillers and floats in the pool or the ocean. “The light—the famous light—made it all look honeyed and mild,” Cline writes, “the dark European green of the scrub trees, the dune grasses that moved in whispery unison.” A man on the beach is “tanned to the color of expensive luggage.
“She’s a character who distills a lot of my natural interests as a writer,” Cline said of Alex. “There is something mysterious about what you’re drawn to, any creative person.” Alex, she said, “is somebody whose experience in the world literalizes or exaggerates a lot of my interest in power or sex or the dynamics between men and women.
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