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Stacey Abrams Contains Multitudes
Her obsessions with public policy and pop culture came together in the new Supreme Court thriller “While Justice Sleeps,” the first time she has used her own name on one of her novels.
Stacey Abrams published her first book — “Rules of Engagement,” a romance novel about a brilliant undercover agent and her smoking-hot colleague — while a student at Yale Law School. Eager to keep her worlds separate, she used the nom de plume Selena Montgomery, a homage to the “Bewitched” actress Elizabeth Montgomery.
Abrams went on to write seven more Selena Montgomery books (one of which, “Never Tell,” is in development with CBS), as well as two nonfiction works under her own name, while pursuing her day jobs as a tax lawyer, business owner, state lawmaker, candidate for governor and voting-rights advocate, to name a few. It is hard to imagine that anyone who followed the 2020 election does not know who Stacey Abrams is.
And so for her latest book, “While Justice Sleeps,” a legal thriller about a Supreme Court justice whose descent into a coma plunges the court, and the country, into turmoil, Abrams, 47, has used her own name on a novel for the first time. It is as if the disparate parts of her life — the public-policy part, the nerdy, abstruse-topic part and the popular-culture-consuming part — are finally coalescing.
“Writing is as much a part of who I am as anything,” Abrams said last month in a video interview from her home in Atlanta. “One thing I am grateful to my parents for is that there was never a moment where they said, ‘Don’t do this.’ What they wanted for us was to explore and try. And writing is native to the way I think about the world.”
“While Justice Sleeps,” out on Tuesday from Doubleday, has a sprawling plot whose features include a proposed merger between a U.S. biotech company and an Indian genetics firm, a cruel disease with a potential cure, a conspiracy involving the top echelons of the American government, a corrupt and ruthless president, a Supreme Court poised to decide a case with worldwide ramifications and an intellectual scavenger hunt that begins with the mention of a famous 19th-century chess match.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/books/stacey-abrams-while-justice-sleeps.html
Stacey Abrams published her first book — “Rules of Engagement,” a romance novel about a brilliant undercover agent and her smoking-hot colleague — while a student at Yale Law School. Eager to keep her worlds separate, she used the nom de plume Selena Montgomery, a homage to the “Bewitched” actress Elizabeth Montgomery.
Abrams went on to write seven more Selena Montgomery books (one of which, “Never Tell,” is in development with CBS), as well as two nonfiction works under her own name, while pursuing her day jobs as a tax lawyer, business owner, state lawmaker, candidate for governor and voting-rights advocate, to name a few. It is hard to imagine that anyone who followed the 2020 election does not know who Stacey Abrams is.
And so for her latest book, “While Justice Sleeps,” a legal thriller about a Supreme Court justice whose descent into a coma plunges the court, and the country, into turmoil, Abrams, 47, has used her own name on a novel for the first time. It is as if the disparate parts of her life — the public-policy part, the nerdy, abstruse-topic part and the popular-culture-consuming part — are finally coalescing.
“Writing is as much a part of who I am as anything,” Abrams said last month in a video interview from her home in Atlanta. “One thing I am grateful to my parents for is that there was never a moment where they said, ‘Don’t do this.’ What they wanted for us was to explore and try. And writing is native to the way I think about the world.”
“While Justice Sleeps,” out on Tuesday from Doubleday, has a sprawling plot whose features include a proposed merger between a U.S. biotech company and an Indian genetics firm, a cruel disease with a potential cure, a conspiracy involving the top echelons of the American government, a corrupt and ruthless president, a Supreme Court poised to decide a case with worldwide ramifications and an intellectual scavenger hunt that begins with the mention of a famous 19th-century chess match.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/books/stacey-abrams-while-justice-sleeps.html
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