The novel is a tense psychological drama that’s difficult to forget long after you’ve closed the book.
The premise of Antoine Wilson’s recent novel “Mouth to Mouth” is simple enough: Two old college acquaintances run into each other in an airport. Their flights are delayed, so they grab a drink to catch up. One begins to tell the other about the time he saved a stranger’s life. What happens next is the unspooling of a tense psychological drama that’s difficult to forget long after you’ve closed the book.
I thought for a long time about, ‘Where’s my steak dinner?’ [Laughs] Uh, yeah, it wasn’t something that necessarily affected me on a super-deep level. But about 10 years ago, I started wanting to explore that rescuer-rescued relationship. And I started with, What if I played with the steak dinner thing and I turned it into a drowning – because I was swimming a lot at the time. And then actually, the early earliest versions of “Mouth to Mouth” did have the steak dinner.
The Jeff story was at the core of what I was working on for several years, and I was working on another novel at the same time, serially, abandoning them back and forth in a way that was completely a hundred percent sincere. It was driving my wife [Chris, a screenwriter] insane because I was like, ‘I’m done; this doesn’t work. I just am not doing this book. I’m going to do the other book.’ And then the same thing would happen back and forth.
This is just for you – ’cause I just came up with this term and maybe it’s not any good – but ‘alienated gratification.’ That’s how I would describe it.It’s gratifying to have a response, to have to know that people are reading your words, to know that it goes beyond the friend-of-friend circle, and I like hearing from readers. I’m very happy those people are having experiences with the story because that’s why I started writing. Trying to do to other people’s heads what some books did to mine.
Q. So the obligatory question, What are you working on next? has to be asked. The broader question might be, how do you operate in that space after a book comes out? Do you start working immediately on something new?
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