Interview with So Much Pretty author Cara Hoffman  program
date:  Fri, 06/29/2012  KBOO's Between the Covers reporter
Jennifer Kemp and guest reporter Desmond Fuller interviewed So
Much Pretty author Cara Hoffman. So Much Pretty is a harrowing,
provakative and exhilerating recent novel dealing with small
town politics and personal and societal accountability. Hoffman
takes the reader to a faltering town in upstate New York where
an ambitious Cleveland journalist, a family of DIY
countercultural New Yorkers and their fierce and imaginative
daughter, and members of the town's industrial agricultural
elite all become entangled in the murder of a young, local
woman, Wendy White. So Much Pretty is told from the vantage
points of multiple characters, jumping back and forth in time,
finally arriving at a startling conclusion. A murder mystery on
the surface, So Much Pretty delves much deeper into issues of
linguistic integrity, economics, rural and urban mentalities,
the secret wonders and childhood, environmental d