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Nichole Bernier is author of the novel THE UNFINISHED WORK OF ELIZABETH D, and has written articles and essays for publications including Psychology Today, Elle, Health, Redbook, The Huffington Post, Salon, The Millions, and Post Road literary magazine. A 14-year contributing editor for Conde Nast Traveler, she was previously on staff as the magazine's golf and ski editor and columnist. She is one of the founders of the literary blog Beyond the Margins. Nichole lives near Boston with her husband and five children.
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Still my favorite novel, although A Gentleman in Moscow has become a close second. Speaking of novels, are you still working on a novel set in Russia?

Nichole Bernier Da! Chipping away.

Is your favorite novel Crossing to Safety? Sorry, I can't tell in this format whether you're replying to my previous answer :) I do…moreDa! Chipping away.

Is your favorite novel Crossing to Safety? Sorry, I can't tell in this format whether you're replying to my previous answer :) I do love that book, have read it three times, and take away something new each time. Most recently, I was impressed by the narrative voice — Larry Morgan is a great combination of confidence with self-effacing humor, and Stegner does such a wonderful job of infusing the long flashbacks (which comprise most of the book) with wise and wry insights from his older self. (less)

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Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Nichole Bernier Oh, this is a tough one! The pair I keep coming back to isn’t the most well-matched or romantic couple, but they’re iconic for how quietly dysfunction…moreOh, this is a tough one! The pair I keep coming back to isn’t the most well-matched or romantic couple, but they’re iconic for how quietly dysfunctional they were: Sid and Charity Lang, in Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety, set mostly in the '30s and '40s. He’s a dreamer, an English professor who just wants to tinker in his think-house and write poetry. She’s a bold, adventurous, type-A wife and friend who makes the trains run on time, creates lots of fun, but wants to micromanage everything him about him — from his ambition, to the way he is supposed to eventually live without her. Such a rich portrait of marriage, and personality differences, as we age.(less)

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Remembering Tucker

Originally published on Beyond the Margins July 29, 2010.

There is a scene in my novel where a dog is put to sleep at a veterinarian’s office. It is a telling moment because the dog’s owner, an emotionally shut-down character, slips away at the beginning of the procedure, leaving his girlfriend to comfort the dog at the end of his life.

The euthanasia of a dog is not something I had ever

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“But there are no real accidents, only decisions that feel like accidents, one after another, that take you down a certain road and take on a momentum that can't be reversed.”
― Nichole Bernier, The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.

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“You could become paralyzed with worry about what might happen to your family, or if you hadn’t yet had children you could decide not to, as a sort of proactive damage control. Either way, you would be derailing your life voluntarily out of fear that it might become ruined by chance. Or you could pick up and move on. Those were the only choices.”
― Nichole Bernier, The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.

tags: chance, fear, move-on

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“That's the funny thing about people who don't fit into a box. They grow to infiltrate everything and when they suddenly go missing they are missing everywhere.”
― Nichole Bernier, The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.

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