Amanda Goldblatt's new novel Hard Mouth explores solitude and grief
"I now wonder how someone starts or finishes a novel without something that feels that cataclysmic in their life." For someone who wrote her debut novel about a woman's escape to the mountains, Amanda Goldblatt, who now lives in Chicago and teaches at Northeastern, hasn't spent all that much time in the wilderness. She recalls the not-quite camping of her Girl Scout days in Maryland, back…