The Bubble: An Interview With A.M. Homes

A.M. Homes. Photo by Marie Sanford.

When A. M. Homes was growing up in Washington, D.C., her teachers were skeptical that she’d successfully write a check, much less a book. She dropped out of high school and eventually found herself at Sarah Lawrence, where she met Grace Paley. Homes’s books—The Safety of Objects (1990), The End of Alice (1996), and Music for Torching (1999), among others—have been translated into twenty-two languages, adapted for film and television, and made many critics and readers “uncomfortable.” But “that’s . . .