Hearst Owned
Christina McDowell was on her way out of D.C. when she decided to write what could be the most delicious Washington novel in recent memory.
“I was in town for the Women s March, and on the plane back to Los Angeles, I got an email from my editor, who said, ‘What’s going on with the cave dwellers,” McDowell says, using a term that refers to longtime residents of the nation’s capital, the sort of people who stay in power no matter who’s living in the White House. “I had asked her if anyone had ever written a book about the sons and daughters of the most powerful figures here in this epicenter of institutional power, and she said, ‘You know, I think you re onto something.’”