Marfa, the New York Times, The O'Briens & Karin

                                                                                                                              ©Tony Cenicola/NYT 2015

It's the last week of January. It's Maine. Ask me if we are missing Marfa.
The answer would be, yes.
Tony Cenicola's photo is from a NYT piece that ran a while back, when my second novel, The O'Briens was coming out.
The house in Tony's photo is the rental BB, H, and I were living in at that time.
Our own house in Marfa, Little Pink, is a lot smaller.
That is, however, our own 1986 Chevrolet C10.

“The O'Briens is a major accomplishment” —New York Times Book Review
“Peter Behrens’s twentieth-century American saga The O’Briens (Pantheon) is a film-ready tale of an Irish clan’s ‘strange, rough beauty,’ brought to its fullest expression by its ambitious eldest son, who knows what he wants and isn’t afraid to court her: ‘I won’t try to put you in some little-woman box . . . . Happiness means freedom.” —Megan O’Grady, Vogue (April 2012)
“Brimming with character and incident, even more ambitious in scope than its prizewinning predecessor, The Law of Dreams. . . . Supple prose captures both their keening sorrowfulness and their rapturous engagement with the pleasures of the physical world. From the sepia-tinted opening tableau of an old priest waltzing with children to a hand-cranked Victrola to the spectral closing image of a man rowing out of the fog toward voices, Behrens celebrates the warmth of human attachments without pretending they can ever entirely dispel the existential chill of mortality and loneliness.” —The Daily Beast

My latest novel, Karin, will be out in 2016 from Pantheon (US) and House of Anansi (Canada).