I have parties in all my books, but I wanted a bigger party. I had the title from the beginning, I think it is the first time I ever had. I'm interested in all kinds of mythology. Republic of Love was a book about a mermaid, a kind of feminist look at that iconography. These things just interest me impossibly, especially mazes because they exist in every culture.
Every continent has a mermaid myth.
They go right back to prehistory. And so do mazes. In different forms, but definitely a maze. Probably there is. I think it's a concept of the complexity of life, the spiritual side.