NEW YORK—Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney was on her way to meet her family for brunch in New York when she had an idea for the opening scene of her debut novel, “The Nest.”
Sweeney imagined family members “all needing to meet but all needing a drink before they met and all getting their drink in proximity to each other without knowing that they were all doing the same thing,” she said in a recent phone interview from her home in Los Angeles.
She was intrigued by why they needed to drink before seeing one another and what the meeting was about.
This book cover image released by Ecco shows "The Nest," a book by Cynthia dAprix Sweeney, about four adult siblings whose inheritance is in jeopardy. Ecco via AP
