Elizabeth McCracken : (3) " In ‘Property,’ none of the characters are based on any real people, but the house is very much the house that I moved into in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. " - Elizabeth McCracken " When you’ve lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was. " - Elizabeth McCracken " You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people. " - Elizabeth McCracken