Interviews June 11, 2020

Tracy O’Neill. Photo: Oskar Miarka So, where does Quotients, this big, multilayered novel, come from? Quotients is about people trying to build homes and find shelter in family, when they feel that the world is place full of peril. This was a preoccupation in my own life. Then, I met a man who said he’d once been a spy. Spying is motivated by a desire to keep some “us” safe through gathering information and forming predictions, but it introduces danger, too. It’s predicated on the fear that things may not be what they appear to be, but it also