Deborah Michel

http://www.deborahmichel.net

Photo by Shreya Ramachandran

I probably shouldn’t admit this, but Prosper in Love was inspired in part by my own marriage. In the early years, it seemed like my husband and I fell into the trap of having the same fight over and over again, too often ending with, “Well, maybe you’d be happier without me!” “Maybe you would!” “Fine!” “Fine!” We’d always back away from that scary place where neither of us really wanted to go. But I wondered, what would have happened if our foolish younger selves had somehow failed to kiss and make up one night?

Before writing a novel I spent...