{"id":849,"date":"2011-03-17T11:52:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T15:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=849"},"modified":"2011-03-17T11:52:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T15:52:34","slug":"coincidences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/birthmarked\/coincidences\/","title":{"rendered":"Coincidences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coincidences tend to be unbelievable in fiction, but I\u2019m living with a couple of curious ones now in my real life.\u00a0 A year ago, when my daughter told me she wanted to study in France, she applied to a program at the University of Rennes, and Rennes just happens to be the city where H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Bury, the French translator for <em>Birthmarked,<\/em> resides.\u00a0 What are the chances that my daughter and my translator would end up in the same city, giving me ample excuse to visit?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_850\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-850\" class=\"size-full wp-image-850\" title=\"Suitcase\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Suitcase.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"263\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Off to France<\/p><\/div>\n<p>H\u00e9l\u00e8ne and I have become friends via email over the past year, discussing things like how to translate \u201cMasister,\u201d and how much she loves West Coast Swing dancing, so I\u2019ve been looking forward to meeting her.\u00a0 When I told her I was coming to Rennes this March, she kindly offered to help line up a book signing in the city.\u00a0 We\u2019ll be at Virgin from 15:00-16:00 this Saturday.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure how common it is for writers and their translators to have a chance to meet, let alone do joint book signings, but I\u2019m guessing it&#8217;s rare, and I&#8217;m pretty happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m having a coincidence of timing, as well.\u00a0 The reason I\u2019ll be in France this weekend rather than another is because my husband is speaking at a conference in Germany, and we wanted to fly over together to combine a visit to our daughter with his work.\u00a0 When I mentioned to my French editor, Sarah Millet, that H\u00e9l\u00e8ne and I were doing the Rennes signing, she asked if I could do one in Paris, as well.\u00a0 The one date I happen to be in the city, tomorrow, is the first day of the Paris Book Fair, and Sarah invited me to sign there, so I will.\u00a0 Again, what are the chances such timing would work?<\/p>\n<p>Stars sometimes do align.\u00a0 It almost makes me think a coincidence or two could work in fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coincidences tend to be unbelievable in fiction, but I\u2019m living with a couple of curious ones now in my real life.\u00a0 A year ago, when my daughter told me she wanted to study in France, she applied to a program at the University of Rennes, and Rennes just happens to be the city where H\u00e9l\u00e8ne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthmarked","tag-ha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}