"When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I……" — Joyce Carol Oates

"When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed."

— Joyce Carol Oates

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