![]() ![]() This is probably not the origin story you’d expect: I was kayaking last summer with my AirPods in, listening to Vauhini Vara’s wonderful début novel, “ The Immortal King Rao.” She has a plotline about a wealthy father raising his daughter in isolation on an island, ostensibly to protect her-and my initial suspicion was that he secretly had another family. What made you want to imagine Eloise’s possible origins and her mother’s life? It’s very hard to talk about the story without giving spoilers, so anyone who hasn’t read it yet should stop here! The story is, we gradually realize, a kind of parodic prequel to the children’s-book series “ Eloise,” written by Kay Thompson (and illustrated by Hilary Knight). ![]() Your story “ The Plaza” revolves around a young woman from a small town in upstate New York, seduced by a wealthy man from New York City who puts her up at the eponymous hotel. ![]()
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