Lauren Ling Brown ’12 Sets a Thriller at a Princeton Eating Club
‘Some Princeton students have reached out saying that they really identified with the characters, especially multiracial young women, and that meant so much to me’
‘Some Princeton students have reached out saying that they really identified with the characters, especially multiracial young women, and that meant so much to me’
‘None of these characters are black and white. I wanted everything and everybody in this book to live in the gray area, because that felt like life to me’
‘Writing this book became more of a catharsis and an escape from a corporate job that did get very stressful’
James graduated from Princeton with a book deal for Capitana, a romance/fantasy novel she wrote during her junior year
‘I don’t know that we can always be reduced to events that have happened in our past …. I’m very much interested in the way that characters behave in the...
Brown’s debut novel, Society of Lies, follows an alumna investigating the death of her sister, who was in an exclusive Princeton social club
“Abortion is a topic that gets very polarized very, very quickly. And I think that one of the things that fiction can do is give us a level of remove...
‘I’d like readers to take away just this feeling of hope for the future, for their future’
‘That adage holds true, that every villain is the hero of their own story’