Interview with Skye Lane about her new book,  Will Read Breasts.

Interviewer:  Congratulations on your new book  Why did you write it?

Skye:  It was for catharsis and discovery. Also entertainment.

Discovery of what?

Of what happens to a woman after walking out on the life’s she’s known for 20+ years.

And what happens to that life?

It implodes, beginning with false dreams, and the nature of reality.  The dreams refer to the picket fence relationship she aspired to with her husband, her children, and life. Sprinting  her way through to some kind of understanding afterwards turns out to not be not as productive as she expected. After arriving in New York she finds herself repeating the same adolescent mistakes of the past and heading toward a great big fall.

What happens to her?

She is brought to a halt by a seemingly great love in the guise of an itinerant musician, whose desire for her in her purest form forces her to change her concept of who she is.

He sounds a bit on the pushy side

A dictator really, and seemingly egocentric. The irony is that he has no ego at all.

Why the title?

It refers to the the way the main character bares herself, in more ways than one.

What reality does she find?

When she arrives in NYC Elyse has this idea that she is going to find herself in 60 days. This of course stretches to 90, then 120 days—but does it matter?  While she doesn’t find herself, she finds what  she has lost of herself  and must reclaim. 

Essentially, the conflict is between her concept of who she is, and who she had aspired to be.  This phase of the journey ends when these two pieces are reconciled.

The other reality is that you can fall in love with someone in a moment—if he is your true love.

Well is he?

That remains to be seen.

Do I sense a sequel?

A trilogy.  The second is 500 Women, the third is The Wanderer.

What is The Wanderer about?

It’s is about seeing. It’s about being fed a diet of images and goals which so become your own that we lose the ability to think uniquely or to understand what it is we truly need, and want—not just as humanoids, but as a race.  It’s about misinformation and brainwashing and the  quest to discern reality from fiction to uncover the true nature of things.

Why the title of the other book?

500 Women refers to the number of women Sabian—

Oh, I really want to meet Sabian. 

Everyone does.

Anyway, Sabian sleeps with very many, many women before he finds Lyse, a number which causes Lyse to react in an extreme way and, which essentially, paves the way toward uncovering previous lifetimes together, unfolding a trail of a love, passion, possession,  and devotion.  The great question:  will they find understanding in this lifetime? In other words, will Sabian put his ego on hold long enough to listen to Lyse, and will Lyse put her pride on hold long enough to admit that she knows what Sabian stands for is correct?

And do they?

I guess we’ll see.

A Novel

by Skye Lane

(c) all rights reserved

For a single woman returning to the world of dating after a 20+ year hiatus, it’s not the best offer she’s had, but it’s not the worst either. This recent divorcee determinedly unravels the codes of attracting men who’ve got their eyeballs glued to twenty-year-olds, of sexual game playing,  and of the mysterious dating portal known as “Craigslist,” all the while trying to find the one thing that has eluded her most of all--herself.

The story within the story is In Search of The Big O, the screenplay she is writing, which mirrors her desire for simple sexual fulfillment. But it is the quest for physical, emotional and spiritual connection that she is really on.

Contemporary lit with an abundance of  style, wit and edge.