Frank Disussion

“Hilderbrand, whose books are generally set around Nantucket Island, has just published her latest novel, Golden Girl, in which author and mother-of-three Vivian is killed in a car accident, and watches her family’s life from the ‘Beyond’ for one last summer. It features a short passage in which Vivi, as a child, is planning to stay in her friend’s attic. ‘You’re suggesting I hide here all summer?’ Vivi asks. ‘Like … like Anne Frank?’ This makes them both laugh – but is it really funny, and is Vivi so far off base?” Elin Hilderbrand asks for Anne Frank reference to be cut from novel after complaints. (Now we’re canceling fictional characters who make stupid analogies? We’ve lost our minds.)