On Endings

How to finish (or not exactly finish?) a book.

Over the past few years, I’ve grown used to getting some flack for the endings of my novels. When Girl at War was published, I got loads of questions whether there would be a sequel. What would happen to Ana; what about Luka, or her sister, or her godparents; why I hadn’t given them any closure? It felt like a very American question. Today, the work of …