Megan Abbott

It's the hardest part.

Yes.

It's about a town that other people feel is cursed because there's a series of calamities that befall all the young people in the town.

And no one can figure out how to break the curse.

So it's...

It's it's inspired by a real life story as well.

And it's it's different and yet the same would be what I would say.

It's similar to my past books in that I'm dealing with teenage girls again, in large part, but it's a little different because I've dealt with something like that, like this sort of larger story.

you know, once you feel you're cursed, you're cursed, right?

You know, it's sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Because your belief is what powers the curse.

Exactly, exactly.

So the whole town is sort of under the sway of this and try, like, how do we escape it?

Where's the town?

Can you share?

It's an unnamed location, which... But like New England, Midwest?

You know, I really wanted the reader to be

be able to plug in their town.

So I try to keep it as big as possible, but it is a small town.

It's a small town, only, you know, 20,000 people.