When 27-year-old Lillian Fishman set out to write her debut novel, Acts of Service, she thought she would be telling a queer story — by the end, it became a book about heterosexuality
Photo-Illustration: The Cut. Photos: Angalis Field . Her acerbic and self-punishing narrator, Eve, is a queer woman in her 20s, tepidly navigating the city and a stagnant-but-stable relationship with her girlfriend. In Eve’s private moments, she takes hundreds of faceless nudes and stores them on her cell phone.
That book started there, but it became a book about a relationship between Eve and Nathan. And I didn’t want the book to be about Nathan or heterosexuality. Those are things I was avoiding and was uncomfortable with, and I certainly thought of myself as a queer person and as a person who would write a queer novel. But that center announced itself to me, and I’m happy it did. The book is about Nathan and needed to be.
Speaking of the ways that heterosexual desire is fraught for women, and how it’s particularly fraught for queer and bisexual women — those tensions come through in the ways Olivia and Eve relate to each other. Can you tell me more about cultivating their arc?
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