Kimberly McCreight joined Zibby for an IG Live to talk about her latest novel, Friends Like These, which was inspired in part by her own tight-knit group of college friends. The two talked about Kimberly's writing process (which she doesn't necessarily recommend), what it has been like to adapt this book for a television series with Steven Spielberg's production company, and, of course, what roles they watch played in their respective friend groups.
Kimberly: My book, A Good Marriage, is set in my neighborhood, Park Slope. It takes place over one week in the summer when most of the kids are away at sleepaway camp and their parents are all gearing up for the event of the summer which is an adult-only party with a sexually adventurous side to it, sexually adventurous but fun. It was always meant to just be fun. This year after the party, one of the women turns up dead. Her husband is quickly arrested. He reaches out to a former law school classmate named Lizzy. As she's drawn into Park Slope, she quickly realizes that neither her friends nor his wife were who they appeared to be. Then her own husband doesn't seem to be either. A Good Marriage is part legal suspense, part domestic suspense. It's also meant to be a genuine exploration of what it means to sustain a marriage over time and the secrets some couples keep and the compromises they make in order to stay together whatever the cost.
