The Book of Ruth

The minute the central story arc of Home Was a Dream came together in my mind, a fresh challenge immediately clamored for attention: how was I going to tell this particular story? The first two novels in the Tim Green series (Believe in Me and Never Break the Chain) are narrated almost entirely from Tim’s first-person perspective; you are inside his head, in the present, experiencing what he experiences. But Home Was a Dream began as a story about Tim’s father Bernie, before growing to also feature Bernie’s father, Tim’s grandfather Max. So: how do you employ your series’ established first-person narrator to tell a story that’s mostly about two people who are, in your narrator’s present, both long since dead? The solution soon became clear, in the form of a supporting character in both previous Tim Green novels: his Aunt Ruth. Ruth is Bernie’s older sister, the alpha sibling...

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