Wendy asked Chris Bohjalian:

I started The Guest Room yesterday and I totally love it! I am half way done and I do not want to put it down! But I do not want it to end because then it will be done! I have read all your books and some are more liked than others but this one will be in my memory bank for a long long time as one of your very best. I love that you always write about very different situations. So what will your next book be!?!?

Chris Bohjalian Thank you, Wendy. I am thrilled you're enjoying "The Guest Room" and do not want to put it down. I love that feeling when I am devouring a novel.

I hope I never write the same book twice. That's not necessarily a goal, but it is a desire and it factors into the sorts of subject I tackle.

Now, there are definite threads that link all of my work: a sense of dread; that razor thin line between heartbreak and hope; and what my astute young daughter has observed is my "sweet spot: seriously messed up young women." (She was referring to Emily Shepard and Laurel Estabrook and Serafina Bettini and all of the young women in "The Sandcastle Girls." Certainly Alexandra fits rights in: another smart, courageous, and emotionally or physically scarred character.)

So, the next book? I hope it has all of that but will also be something a little new. It is about a woman with a rare parasomnia who goes missing. Stay tuned.

Thanks for asking.

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