What - I was interested in what about their lives prompted them to want to find refuge here in Maine.Īnd then all of a sudden, I'm standing at the fridge, and this voice came to me, and it was undeniably not mine. We didn't have enough ventilators, so we were really paying attention to this influx of people whom we perceived to have more privilege than many of us here in Maine have but who were nonetheless fleeing. ![]() And Maine is a poor and aging state, and we don't have many hospital beds. For a little bit there, I'd go out running, and I'd see Massachusetts and New York and New Jersey license plates in my home state of Maine. SHETTERLY: My character of Alice came to me in April of 2020. So we'll cue the spooky music while you tell us what happened. SIMON: You say in an author's note that in April 2020, a voice came to you. Thanks so much for being with us.ĬAITLIN SHETTERLY: Thank you so much for having me. She's also editor in chief of Frenchly, the online site for French cultural news, and joins us from Freeport, Maine. ![]() They repaired their second home in Maine to feel safer from COVID, but they take along all their resentments, challenges and love.Ĭaitlin Shetterly is the author of the new novel "Pete And Alice In Maine." Her work may be familiar from This American Life. Their marriage is rocked by Pete's cheating and then COVID. Pete is in finance Alice, a playwright whose career has been delayed by caring for their two children, Sophie and Iris. Some people kind of like the pandemic - not illness, worry and feeling trapped, but having your children close by and everything from bread, radicchio, milk, or oat milk, to toothpicks delivered - people like Pete and Alice, a married New York City couple.
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