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We're pleased to take Amy Poeppel back at CLC today to celebrate the recent publication of her latest novel, Musical Chairs. Melissa enjoyed it and has a review to share. Thanks to Amy, nosotros have ane copy for a lucky reader!

Amy Poeppel grew upwardly in Dallas, Texas. She graduated from Wellesley College and worked every bit an actress in the Boston surface area, appearing in a corporate industrial for Polaroid, a commercial for Brooks Chemist's, and a truly terrible episode of America'due south Most Wanted, along with other TV spots and several plays. While in Boston, she also got her M.A. in Didactics from Simmons College.

She is married to David Poeppel, a neuroscientist at NYU and Director of the Max Planck Institute in Frankfurt. For the past thirty years, they have lived in many cities, including San Francisco, Berlin, and New York, and had three sons along the mode. Amy taught loftier school English in the Washington, DC suburbs, and after moving to New York, she worked equally an banana manager of admissions at an independent school where she had the fulfilling experience of meeting and getting to know hundreds of applicant families.

Amy attended sessions at the Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit of measurement and wrote the theatrical version of Small Admissions, which was performed at that place as a staged reading in 2011. Amy's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Rumpus, Working Female parent, Points In Case, The Belladonna, and Literary Mama. (Bio adapted from Amy's website.)

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Synopsis:
Bridget and Will accept the kind of human relationship that people envy: they're loving, uniform, and completely devoted to each other. The fact that they're strictly friends seems to become lost on nearly everyone; after all, they're as expert as married in (almost) every way. For three decades, they've nurtured their baby, the Forsyth Trio—a sleeping accommodation group they created equally students with their Juilliard classmate Gavin Glantz. In the intervening years, Gavin has gone on to become one of the classical music world'due south reigning stars, while Bridget and Will have learned to cover the warm reviews and smaller venues that accompany modest success.

Bridget has been dreaming of spending the summertime at her well-worn Connecticut land domicile with her boyfriend Sterling. But her plans are upended when Sterling, dutifully following his ex-wife's advice, breaks up with her over email and her twin 20-somethings arrive unannounced, filling her empty nest with their big dogs, muddied laundry, and respective crises.

Bridget has problems of her own: her elderly father announces he's getting married, and the Forsyth Trio is in one case again missing its violinist. She concocts a plan to host her dad's wedding on her ramshackle holding, while putting the Forsyth Trio back into the spotlight. Only to grab the attention of the music world, she and Will identify their bets on luring back Gavin, whom they've both avoided ever since their stormy parting.

With her trademark humor, pitch-perfect vox, and sly perspective on the human eye, Amy Poeppel crafts a dearest alphabetic character to modern family life with all of its discord and harmony. In the tradition of novels by Maria Semple and Stephen McCauley, Musical Chairs is an irresistibly romantic story of role reversals, reinvention, and sweet synchronicity.

(Courtesy of Amazon.)

What is a favorite compliment you've received about your writing?
One of my very favorite authors—Marcy Dermansky of Very Overnice and Bad Marie—said I take "a remarkable talent for creating the very best kind of commotion" in my novels. This blurb fabricated my mean solar day! I dear creating characters and and so putting them in situations that are challenging, surprising, and comedic. Marcy's comment was later backed upwards by BookPage; they said, "Poeppel's people are a mess, only her writing is crisp and breezy." Mayhem and mess? That definitely makes me smile.

Which of the characters in Musical Chairs was the easiest for you to write and which was the most difficult?
In some ways Jackie was the easiest character to write. I loved bringing in a grapheme who didn't quite fit in and who was seeing the other characters for the very first time. Jackie feels out of place and nervous—I can relate to that—and observes the family members with a picayune disdain but also with adoration.

Will was probably the most difficult to write because I wanted him to be a really, truly proficient guy. There's a danger in that because I didn't want him to come up beyond as besides sappy or too good to be truthful. It was fun to find an edge to his character, only enough snarkiness to make him real, but plenty loyalty and kindness to make him wonderful.

If Musical Chairs were made into a motion-picture show, who would you cast in the atomic number 82 roles?
I would love to run across Musical Chairs on the big screen! I would bandage Debra Messing as Bridget and Hugh Jackman as Will. For Will's love interest, Emma, I'd cull Leslie Isle of mann, and I'd give Jude Law the part of Gavin, the handsome star violinist. Finally, I'd cast Michael Caine every bit Bridget's famous male parent, Edward Stratton!

What is your favorite piece of classical music?
My son Luke introduced to me to a lot of classical music while I was writing Musical Chairs, which I truly appreciated! One piece I especially grew to love (and included in the novel) is Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D small. Information technology goes from dramatic and lovely to joyful and energetic, and listening to it is a pleasance.

What have you learned about yourself during this pandemic quarantine?
I've learned that I brand no sense whatsoever. Information technology seems I am perfectly content to be a hermit. I can get days in sweatpants, happily reading, writing, and taking solo walks without missing companionship in the least. But I take other days where I long to be with friends, crave in person conversations, and would do anything to walk into a restaurant just to be surrounded past people. So I guess I'm some kind of introvert/extrovert hybrid.

What is something that you had a proficient laugh about recently?
I'grand finding it so hard to laugh these days! At that place was i peculiarly grim day when I was despairing about the pandemic, while also wondering how on earth I would exist able to reach readers in the middle of this crisis—Would anyone even know my book was coming out? Would anyone be excited to read it? And then I came upwards with an idea to make a book trailer with my family unit. I wrote a script and asked my kids and husband to exist in it with me. We filmed the whole thing on an iPhone, and we laughed the whole fourth dimension nosotros were making information technology. Please check information technology on YouTube and let me know if you can tell that we were laughing between takes!

Thanks to Amy for chatting with u.s.a. and for sharing her book with our readers.

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