Grant Ginder has made an art out of dysfunctional comedy that goes to dark places. He talks about the roots of his latest, 'Let's Not Do That Again.'
“A Thousand Steps,” Parker’s 27th thriller, follows a teenage boy and his family in over their heads in Timothy Leary’s Laguna Beach.
It wasn’t about the beach, or even the West Coast. After reminiscing for a few minutes about Laguna’s now-defunct, “this great old gay dive bar that had a Wednesday Drag Night,” the author acknowledges that, even though his parents were “incredibly supportive” when he came out, “there were certainly no ‘out’ gay students at my large public high school in Orange County. There were no real resources for a gay teenager. And my parents got that.
Without giving away too much of “Let’s Not Do That Again,” it’s possible to say the novel puts that notion severely to the test. Nancy, the matriarch, reflects Ginder’s view that “women in politics still get the very, very, very short end of the stick. They have to work twice as hard, three times as hard, as men. I started writing this book during the Trump administration [after] watching theNancy, whose late husband wasn’t very good at his job, discovers she is superb at it.
In “Let’s Not Do That Again,” the Harrison family faces a difficult moral choice that is going to have a huge effect on national politics — one involving violence in the pursuit of supposedly noble ends. Some of the things Nancy and Greta get up to might seem dark, but Ginder believes “characters should be complex, particularly characters that, in the history of literature, have not been allowed to be complex.
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