It’s been six years since the publication of Groff’s novel Fates and Furies. Crying is also part of my work,” she adds with a wry laugh. “There are weeks, months, maybe even a full year where I would just sit there and write shitty sentences, or no sentences at all, and just stare at the page and cry. “I have swung through periods of profound depression, and I find it almost impossible to write when I’m depressed,” she says. The emotional realities of the pandemic have hit Groff hard, she tells me. In Florida, where she lives, the average number of daily Covid cases has catapulted over the 17,000 mark during the first week of August, when we chat over Zoom. The critically acclaimed author of four novels and two story collections, Groff spent her afternoon cancelling plans.
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