Joanna Biggar Reveals the Heart Center of her Newest Novel Novelist Joanna Biggar opens up about her latest novel "Melanie's Song," its impotant relationship to the setting, California, and its place in her body of work. "Melanie's Song," the latest novel from Joanna Biggar, focuses on unraveling the mystery of a missing girl somewhere in California during the cultural revolution of the 1960s and '70s. After 2015's That Paris Year which followed a group of young women on their year-abroad at the Sorbonne—their youthful flings as well as their many rites of adulthood— Joanna … [Read more...]