![]() ![]() ![]() Josie has just informed her professor husband, Anthony, and her adopted daughter, Wendy, that she is moving out. In her latest, novel, "Trouble," two college best friends in their mid-40s, Josie, a Manhattan psychotherapist, and Raquel, an indie rock star, meet up in Mexico City for a "Thelmita and Luisa"-style adventure. ![]() Her last novel, "The Great Man" (which won the PEN/Faulkner award), was about three women in their 70s and 80s - two widows and an embittered lesbian painter - who rediscover love, lust and ambition after the death of the "great man," an artist who had always towered over them all. But Christensen, wearing no make-up and a fitted gray dress, has the easy and direct confidence of a person who feels good in her own skin. Probably the swiftest way to trivialize the work of a woman writer is to make a big to-do about how sexy she is in person. I looked down at my knees and the skin above them had become a little loose. "I remember the moment I first became aware of aging," says the novelist Kate Christensen, now 46, at a rooftop cafe near her house in Greenpoint, in Brooklyn, N.Y. ![]()
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