Minnesota Monthly, September 1st, 2004
The acclaimed author of We Were the Mulvaneys kicks off the 2004-05 season of the Talking Volumes book club. Plugged In caught up with Oates before her visit to St. Paul on October 4. She'll be in town to discuss her latest novel, The Falls, in which she explores the American family in crisis (see details at bottom). In The Falls, many of the troubles of the Burnaby family are imposed on them. Would you say that's typical of the American family? I've written about how the family can be victimized by the outside world. Tm not one of those people who feel that the family itself is dysfunctiona...
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