INTERVIEWER

The ending of the novel—­that list of paragraphs all beginning with “And … ”—­is strikingly beautiful.

GARNER

I suppose it’s the book thinking about itself—­about what is going to happen in the world after it stops being a book. I didn’t want the book to fade out. I wanted it to feel like the way Glenn Gould plays Bach’s Two-­and Three-­Part Inventions—­the way he flings the final notes away with force.