Interview: Jamie Harrison. Author of The Center of Everything.
By V. Jolene Miller
Meet Jamie Harrison, daughter of a poet/novelist, author of several books, and a woman who didn’t dream of growing up to be a writer. What?Thankfully, Jamie resisted a nonwriting life and recently completed her newest novel, The Center of Everything. Polly, the main character, lives an idyllic life in Montana until she’s involved in an accident and a beloved friend of hers goes missing. Now, Polly must navigate a sudden loss admit this new and strange normal.
Tell us a little about you. Did you grow up wanting to be a writer? What has your journey into being a writer been like?
JH: I didn’t grow up wanting to be a writer; my father was a poet and a novelist and I knew it was a rough way to make a living. I cooked and worked in magazines and eventually, after leaving New York for Montana, became the editor of a small press. When it went out of business, and I had trouble finding work, I tried writing a mystery for the sake of earning a living, and I got away with it.
Tell us about the inspiration for your newest novel, the center of everything.
JH: It came out of several things I’ve be
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“You haven’t been west in any meaningful sense until you’ve been to Blue Deer, Montana.” —The New York Times
Jules Clement is back in Blue Deer, working as an archaeologist and private investigator. He’s a happy man but everything that can go wrong will, in terms of money, love, and murder, neighbors, and Russian businessmen dying horrible deaths. All of it pulls Jules back tothe central tragedy of his life: the murder of his father.
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“Jules is charming, sexy, slightly unstable, and yet at bottom incorruptible . . . He was born to keep the peace in Blue Deer, the sort of town that rascals grow misty-eyed over.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer
The earlier Jules Clement novels
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“A sparkling, caustic first novel . . . In this madly original debut, Ms. Harrison speaks up in a fresh, animated voice to say something worth saying about the festering animosities of small minds cooped up in small towns.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“[A] remarkable debut… fast-paced and sexy.” &m
JAMIE HARRISON
Winner of the Reading the West Award
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
"Sweeping and richly hued." ― The New York Times Book Review
"Georgeously written." ― Entertainment Weekly
"What keeps you reading is not just the quality of the writing, which is just absolutely wonderful, but also to find out: Is [Dulcy] going to [remake herself]? Can this be successful? Or is she going to be found out?" ―Nancy Pearl, Morning Edition, NPR
"Jamie Harrison is a clever, gifted writer, and this shining book is flat-out terrific." ― Carl Hiaasen
"An adventurous, ambitious, inventive novel by a writer to relish." ― Colum McCann
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Jamie Harrison, who has lived in Montana with her family for more than thirty years, has worked as a caterer, a gardener, and an editor, and is the author of The Center of Everything, The Widow Nash, and the four Jules Clement/Blue Deer mysteries: The Edge of the Crazies, Going Local, An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence, and Blue Deer Thaw. She was awarded the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Book Award for The Widow Nash, and was a finalist for the High Plains Book Award.
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Jules ClementBooks:
The River View, AugustJules Clement
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The River View, August
Jules Clement
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The Edge of the Crazies, July
Jules Clement #1
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Going Local, July
Jules Clement #2
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An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence, July
Jules Clement #3
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Blue Deer Thaw, July
Jules Clement #4
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The Center of Everything, Janu
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