<club-desc-paragraph>The intimate and intense nature of female friendship takes center stage, and changes the course of history, in Heather O’Neill’s newest novel, When We Lost Our Heads. Once the lives of Marie Antoine, the charismatic and spoiled daughter of a sugar baron, and Sadie Arnette, the sly and brilliant daughter of a Montreal politico, collide, the world around them will never be the same.<club-desc-paragraph>
<club-desc-paragraph>Separated after a game that goes from dangerous to deadly, Marie and Sadie’s lives lead them back to one another again and again, ultimately asking the question of whether or not one relationship can destroy you. When We Lost Our Heads looks at power, privilege, female desire, and how gender and status influence who you are - and who you will become.<club-desc-paragraph>
<club-desc-paragraph>Join Belletrist’s Karah Preiss and author Heather O’Neill for an intimate look at female friendship, class relationships, and how the impact that women have on the world around them is always more complicated than one would expect.<club-desc-paragraph>
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<club-landing-h3>Inspiration<club-landing-h3>
<club-landing-paragraph>Belletrist’s Karah Preiss introduces author Heather O’Neill, and they discuss the inspiration for O’Neill’s book When We Lost Our Heads, the title’s multiple meanings, and what it’s like to experience both moments of failure and moments of triumph as a writer.<club-landing-paragraph>
<club-landing-h3>Drawing from Personal Experience<club-landing-h3>
<club-landing-paragraph>Heather shares about what meeting a writer she loved as a child did for her own writing, and why both reading and writing books became such a passion for her. She and Karah also discuss what it really means to “write what you know.”<club-landing-paragraph>
<club-landing-h3>Character Conversation<club-landing-h3>
<club-landing-paragraph>Karah and Heather discuss what it was like building the characters of Marie Antoine and Sadie Arnett, and dive a little deeper into the role that pornography, sexuality, and gender queerness play in the novel.<club-landing-paragraph>
<club-landing-h3>Themes<club-landing-h3>
<club-landing-paragraph>Heather and Karah look at the themes of the novel, including the beginning movement of Feminism, Capitalism, and the intimate nature of female friendship. Heather also shares about the design of the cover and how it connects to the story.<club-landing-paragraph>
