I didn't want satellites tracking Jamie and Kell as they went on their merry way. SH: One reason was that I didn't want to deal with technology. I find the dynamic of the character who isn't trained in relationships trying to figure them out a really interesting thing to write.ĪC: Why did you choose the 1960s setting? Would you say that you are still drawn to outsiders? He's a criminal, he's alienated from society, he's institutionalized for mental illness, and he has a secret of a more primal nature.
Jamie is very much an "outsider" in the classic sense of your characterizations. I actually wrote the last chapter first.ĪC: I won't give away the surprise of the last chapter.
I'd just pick a scene that I wanted to do that week, so I wrote them out of order. This one I thought of in terms of scenes that I wanted: Jamie gets out of a mental hospital too soon, and Kell Quinn's background. SH: Of course, I've written every single one of them differently. It's just an adult book.ĪC: Did you undertake the same kind of writing process? I'm all over the world instead of in one place. book tour and nursing a cold, Hinton talked about writing the book, which she'll present in a reading at the Texas Book Festival.Īustin Chronicle: Aside from the drugs and the sex and all that, how would you say Hawkes Harbor is different from the work you've done before? Yet the fantastic odds and ends cohere to form a cracked portrait of a broken man who struggles toward his own redemption. In the middle, the story takes a hairpin turn away from Hinton's celebrated gritty realism and into the realm of fantasy. It's a dizzy whirl, a real potboiler with shark attacks, amnesia, rough sex, and gun running. Hawkes Harbor follows protagonist Jamie Sommers on a crash-bang voyage through his 1960s post-adolescence, with leaps in time and space that stretch the imagination: from a hard-luck orphanage to high-seas adventure with his friend Kellen Quinn, from a mental institution to drafty Hawkes Hall, a Delaware manor whose occupant has a generations-old secret.
Her first story with group sex, Burmese pirates, and the IRA. Her first book expressly for adult readers. Her first novel since 1979's Taming the Star Runner. Hinton's Hawkes Harbor is a book of firsts: Her first book since 1995's The Puppy Sister, written for the school-age youth audience.
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